GameRager: As for better alternatives to voting with one's wallet: One can promote/soapbox for a game/game company's vile practices via the big platforms(
youtube/twitter/facebook/etc)
or via smaller forums and sites.
Word of mouth can eventually lead to pressure put on companies to change(or action being taken like with some gov't banning game lootboxes).
So, basically, you call for
(1) public shaming, pestering and pressurizing, and
(2) governmental regulation, over what is allowed in games.
Regarding
(2) I find that pretty interesting, if we take into account the general rejection/disapproval of the gamer "community", when it comes to any kind of regulations in games.
Regarding
(1) I find it amusing, that you call for the very same thing, which you condemn if it's coming from others (
as can be read here)
: GameRager: If a movie promotes
"certain messages/viewpoints"(of a diverse/inclusive nature) and you don't go see it, your significant other(bf/gf)/family/friends will browbeat you until you cave and go see it(or they'll shun you/call you all sorts of things if you don't).
As I have already answered to Yeshu: that's your own weaker self then, that "
forces" you to watch a movie, which you don't want to watch - Disney has nothing to do with it.
That's alone your decision.
GameRager: No, it's society at large/their shunning of those with other opinions that's "
forcing" people(as I said in my other reply to you above/before this one).
No - it's your own inability to just say no, that "forces" you. It doesn't matter, how often you try to put the blame on your family/friends or society in general. At the end of day - it's all on you.
GameRager: Some 20-30 year olds are being forced(as I said in my prior replies on this to you)
to watch such by their friends/gfs/bfs/etc else they get shunned/called nazi-bigot-xphobe/etc.
At this point we are going in circles, so I'll only say it once more: nobody forces you - neither Disney, nor whatever parts of society.
Besides: if you just don't want to watch a movie because of
"messages/viewpoints of diversive/inclusive nature" - your family/friends may have a point here.
But that's a can of worms I won't open in an online conversation. Of course,
one could also say your family/friends have no right to shame and pester you or put pressure on you to go and watch a movie that you don't want to watch...
hmm...wasn't there someone, just calling for exactly that kind of behaviour? ;)
GameRager: Case in point: Captain Marvel/GhostBusters 2016(for starters).
What's with those?
I haven't seen Capt. Marvel yet, but I was in Ghostbusters (2016).
And while the latter wasn't exactly what I had hoped for, it was -
despite its obvious flaws - a nice enough popcorn movie.
GameRager: Heck, Avgn(Youtuber) said he'd never watch Ghostbusters 2016, but then his gf/wife complained and he caved and watched it anyways.
Question: what has one YouTuber's weakness to do with anything? More specifically: what has his weakness to do with you? I mean, apart from the fact that
I now have to assume, that you share his weakness. Because: I never went to see a movie, I had no interest in, just because someone else wanted me to. Of course - I also never had a problem with
"messages/viewpoints of diversive/inclusive nature".
huan: If your anecdotic evidence based on one youtuber is valid, then so is mine. I didn't watch either of those movies (or any star wars outside of the 1-6 for that matter) and I don't plan to.
GB because while I like strong/lead women,
they should get their own story.
I watched it, and yeah...that was my main gripe with Ghostbusters (2016) - the "retelling" of the original story - instead of telling a new, original one.
I mean, the possibilities were there: they could just have said that the new Ghostbusters are the daughters/nieces of the original Ghostbusters and that they took over the business, or something like that...and then deliver a fun, original story built on that.
huan: Somehow I'm still alive and no one is browbeating me. I guess grown up people have better things to do than care about such shallow issues. Or at least people I choose to hang out with.
Bingo!
Same here.