I just realized that half life 2 was a Proto-woke game

[DrokuPorku]

Playing it as a teen, I never really took much notice, although I probably thought it was cringe to have that woman Jackie Chan 4 combine soldiers at once. Now, 20 years later, after playing again, man, the woke in it was so much that even by today's standards it should be considered woke. I still find the game worth playing though.

Here are the woke things found in the game:

-The smartest persons in the game are a black guy and a Jew.

-The leader of the resistance is a black guy.

-Kick *** ninja woman that can do a lot of things, among these things being "Jackie Chaning" 4 combine soldiers at once, the same soldiers that Gordon got his *** kicked by.

-Mixed race kick *** woman.

-Black and Asian mixed race (the rarest mixed race).

-The big bad guy is a white man.

-The only two white guys besides you are "the big bad guy" Wallace Breen and Barney ( which is portrayed as less competent than Alyx)

-The only white woman is helping the big bad white guy.

[rusty_shackleford]

[Xenich]

They have always been pushing this. While there are some games, movies, etc... which did not partake in it, DEI as you know it has been around since the beginning of the entertainment industry.

This is the "realization" people need to understand. It has always been there in various forms, directions, and motives.

There is a bigger picture and directive that has been focused on for decades. Yes, there is a conspiracy.

[Tinky Winky]

It's about time for people to realize that Half Life 2 was never good.

[Xenich]

It's about time for people to realize that Half Life 2 was never good.

The only thing good about it was its mechanics for the time. A shooter with puzzle mechanics, vehicle chases, etc... Past that, meh.

[gerey]

HL2 didn't feel malicious. That's not to say that there wasn't an agenda, just that the agenda likely was not deliberate. Granted, maybe I'm being far too charitable towards Valve.

People in the West, and especially Americans, have been marinating in the shitlib worldview for so long that it has become the new "normal" - I bet most normie Americans couldn't even imagine a world without ******* if you asked them to, because they have been raised to believe the subhumans are an integral part of the USA.

[Roguey]

Zoomers/alphas discovering that political correctness dates back several decades before the Awokening of 2014.

You want non-lib entertainment you pretty much have to stop after the 50s/early 60s at the latest.

[J1M]

Playing it as a teen, I never really took much notice, although I probably thought it was cringe to have that woman Jackie Chan 4 combine soldiers at once. Now, 20 years later, after playing again, man, the woke in it was so much that even by today's standards it should be considered woke. I still find the game worth playing though.

Here are the woke things found in the game:

-The smartest persons in the game are a black guy and a Jew.

-The leader of the resistance is a black guy.

-Kick *** ninja woman that can do a lot of things, among these things being "Jackie Chaning" 4 combine soldiers at once, the same soldiers that Gordon got his *** kicked by.

-Mixed race kick *** woman.

-Black and Asian mixed race (the rarest mixed race).

-The big bad guy is a white man.

-The only two white guys besides you are "the big bad guy" Wallace Breen and Barney ( which is portrayed as less competent than Alyx)

-The only white woman is helping the big bad white guy.

Look up the writer and mystery solved.

[methoxetamine]

Why is Eli so desperate for his daughter go get bleached?

[Tinky Winky]

It's about time for people to realize that Half Life 2 was never good.

The only thing good about it was its mechanics for the time. A shooter with puzzle mechanics, vehicle chases, etc... Past that, meh.

No one lives forever did something akin to that a few years prior, it doesn't have the gravity gun though which is the main sell point of HL2.

[AmericanMonarchist]

"Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn." - Robert Lewis Dabney (Chief of Staff to Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)

"You young men who have been born since the Revolution, look with horror upon the name of a King, and upon all propositions for a strong government. It was not so with us. We were born the subjects of a King, and were accustomed to subscribe ourselves 'His Majesty's most faithful subjects;' and we began the quarrel which ended in the Revolution, not against the King, but against his parliament" - Rufus King (Founding Father, Massachusetts Delegate to the Continental Congress, Signer of the Constitution.)

The woke has been here long before 2014, 1950, or even 1860. Egalitarianism is wokeness and that specter has been dominating our minds since the "enlightenment".

[rusty_shackleford]

rebelling against foreign usurpers calling themselves your king is a good thing

[KOS-MOS]

This is what the so-called “anti-woke” activists — who are just the flip side of the same coin as the woke activists — are trying to confuse the weakest minds with. These so-called “based” influencers are actually fighting against DEI hiring, which is just the next step in a harmful agenda that’s always been about indoctrinating people, targeting the youngest first.

If there are so many lunatics and idiots around today, it’s the result of an unnatural, degenerate education — people who lack the inner strength to break free from it. They’re golems, like in Talmudic mythology.

The “anti-woke” activists don’t actually have a problem with woke content itself — just look at ****** 33 right now. What they really want is a return to quality (writing, design, development, etc.) that’s been lost. Because when you create degenerate monsters, of course the real talent fades away over time.

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Edit: I drifted away from my initial response and the message I was quoting — sorry for the ping.

[rusty_shackleford]

half-life 2 actually was never good
source: I didn't play it, and it's not an RPG

[KOS-MOS]

Playing it as a teen, I never really took much notice, although I probably thought it was cringe to have that woman Jackie Chan 4 combine soldiers at once. Now, 20 years later, after playing again, man, the woke in it was so much that even by today's standards it should be considered woke. I still find the game worth playing though.

Here are the woke things found in the game:

-The smartest persons in the game are a black guy and a Jew.

-The leader of the resistance is a black guy.

-Kick *** ninja woman that can do a lot of things, among these things being "Jackie Chaning" 4 combine soldiers at once, the same soldiers that Gordon got his *** kicked by.

-Mixed race kick *** woman.

-Black and Asian mixed race (the rarest mixed race).

-The big bad guy is a white man.

-The only two white guys besides you are "the big bad guy" Wallace Breen and Barney ( which is portrayed as less competent than Alyx)

-The only white woman is helping the big bad white guy.

Look up the writer and mystery solved.

Let me guess, 'early life' ?

[dagal]

The game is a soyentist's power fantasy where through the power of diversity, human will and SCIENCE they get to rebel against the law and order imposed by an eugenic police state, that is depicted as evil not as much because it is driven by alien invaders that care nothing about your race, but rather because they follow eugenic doctrines, don't pretend to be a democracy and are really, really mean to dissidents.

Gaymers at the time didn't care because the journos didn't really emphasize on these woke aspects, and considered it orthogonal to the criteria that a game's quality should be judged for, so it was rarely discussed. Instead, the game was praised as a masterpiece because of technical and game design aspects.

Also ****** fatigue was not really a thing in 2004 yet. Everybody Hates Chris, a sitcom making fun of ghetto *******, started airing in 2005, and the first couple of seasons were quite popular back then. Today it is pretty common (and understandable) to experience ****** fatigue and simply refuse to look at any more ******* on your screen, so you would judge the game in a different light.

[DrSneed]

Eve was the first wokey.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Monster can looks a bit sussy

[loregamer]

Never played it since you couldn't bunnyhop as fast

[Boulder Gains]

In cases like this I can't help but wonder if the game's were that way because the writers explicitly intended it or if it's because liberal ideals were a part of the cultural milieu of the time. Maybe some of these devs included female warriors, black scientists, etc because they were naive and didn't really think too hard about it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

[ArcaneLurker]

They have always been pushing this. While there are some games, movies, etc... which did not partake in it, DEI as you know it has been around since the beginning of the entertainment industry.

This is the "realization" people need to understand. It has always been there in various forms, directions, and motives.

There is a bigger picture and directive that has been focused on for decades. Yes, there is a conspiracy.

People realised it was a ploy when it wasn't just the creation of such things, but the active pursuit of preventing the creation of any alternatives, and shaming devs for not producing something to appeal to the extreme end of the spectrum, with DEI Civil Rights & Afrocentric Marxism.

[Vaako]

Never played it. I prefered turok at the time with way more funny guns.

[Roguey]

In cases like this I can't help but wonder if the game's were that way because the writers explicitly intended it or if it's because liberal ideals were a part of the cultural milieu of the time. Maybe some of these devs included female warriors, black scientists, etc because they were naive and didn't really think too hard about it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Valve is based in Bellevue, WA which is right next to Seattle. It's been vote blue no matter who since 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_ ... _of_mayors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_C ... il#Members

[Element]

The game is a soyentist's power fantasy where through the power of diversity, human will and SCIENCE they get to rebel against the law and order imposed by an eugenic police state, that is depicted as evil not as much because it is driven by alien invaders that care nothing about your race, but rather because they follow eugenic doctrines, don't pretend to be a democracy and are really, really mean to dissidents.

What was eugenic about the combine occupation? They reduced the human population to serfdom, transplanted different populations to foreign lands so they couldn't rebel and used them as disposable biomass to mine the earth's resources. Anyone who was not on board was either slaughtered by a manhack, extirpated via biological warfare in the form of headcrabs, or caught, castrated and outfitted with cybernetic implants to reprogram them to do better.

[dagal]

The game is a soyentist's power fantasy where through the power of diversity, human will and SCIENCE they get to rebel against the law and order imposed by an eugenic police state, that is depicted as evil not as much because it is driven by alien invaders that care nothing about your race, but rather because they follow eugenic doctrines, don't pretend to be a democracy and are really, really mean to dissidents.

What was eugenic about the combine occupation? They reduced the human population to serfdom, transplanted different populations to foreign lands so they couldn't rebel and used them as disposable biomass to mine the earth's resources. Anyone who was not on board was either slaughtered by a manhack, extirpated via biological warfare in the form of headcrabs, or caught, castrated and outfitted with cybernetic implants to reprogram them to do better.

Humans that voluntarily agreed to be genetically modified were given privileges, since officially they would present themselves as benefactors, not parasites. Likewise, the suppressor field prevented reproduction of *******, at least until they all fell in line and possibly gave in to modification or hybridization into other races (see Breen's speech on instinct).

It's eugenic from the Combine perspective, not human's.

[Element]

The game is a soyentist's power fantasy where through the power of diversity, human will and SCIENCE they get to rebel against the law and order imposed by an eugenic police state, that is depicted as evil not as much because it is driven by alien invaders that care nothing about your race, but rather because they follow eugenic doctrines, don't pretend to be a democracy and are really, really mean to dissidents.

What was eugenic about the combine occupation? They reduced the human population to serfdom, transplanted different populations to foreign lands so they couldn't rebel and used them as disposable biomass to mine the earth's resources. Anyone who was not on board was either slaughtered by a manhack, extirpated via biological warfare in the form of headcrabs, or caught, castrated and outfitted with cybernetic implants to reprogram them to do better.

Humans that voluntarily agreed to be genetically modified were given privileges, since officially they would present themselves as benefactors, not parasites. Likewise, the suppressor field prevented reproduction of *******, at least until they all fell in line and possibly gave in to modification or hybridization into other races (see Breen's speech on instinct).

It's eugenic from the Combine perspective, not human's.

The soyentist power fantasy of rebelling against mandatory vaccination with the chuddies. Woke.

[dagal]

What was eugenic about the combine occupation? They reduced the human population to serfdom, transplanted different populations to foreign lands so they couldn't rebel and used them as disposable biomass to mine the earth's resources. Anyone who was not on board was either slaughtered by a manhack, extirpated via biological warfare in the form of headcrabs, or caught, castrated and outfitted with cybernetic implants to reprogram them to do better.

Humans that voluntarily agreed to be genetically modified were given privileges, since officially they would present themselves as benefactors, not parasites. Likewise, the suppressor field prevented reproduction of *******, at least until they all fell in line and possibly gave in to modification or hybridization into other races (see Breen's speech on instinct).

It's eugenic from the Combine perspective, not human's.

The soyentist power fantasy of rebelling against mandatory vaccination with the chuddies. Woke.

As I implied in my first post, the woke aspect lies in the reason why Combines are characterized as evil. While in the first game all alien invaders were bad, in the second one there are good aliens that you are supposed to like (coming from HL1 my first reaction was to shoot them, but ofc the game doesn't let you), and antlions go from deadly danger to annoying pest to cute pets real quick. The message is that diversity is good, it's just that combines are evil, and they are evil because they don't have democracy, don't let ******* reproduce and are really mean.

Despite the action of rebelling against them being based, it is the implicit motivation that feels wrong and woke to me. As a sloppy analogy, imagine being against islam only because you consider gay sex an undeniable human right.

[Stack of Turtles]

Humans that voluntarily agreed to be genetically modified were given privileges, since officially they would present themselves as benefactors, not parasites. Likewise, the suppressor field prevented reproduction of *******, at least until they all fell in line and possibly gave in to modification or hybridization into other races (see Breen's speech on instinct).

It's eugenic from the Combine perspective, not human's.

The soyentist power fantasy of rebelling against mandatory vaccination with the chuddies. Woke.

As I implied in my first post, the woke aspect lies in the reason why Combines are characterized as evil. While in the first game all alien invaders were bad, in the second one there are good aliens that you are supposed to like, and antlions go from deadly danger to annoying pest to cute pets real quick. The message is that diversity is good, it's just that combines are evil, and they are evil because they don't have democracy, don't let ******* reproduce and are really mean.

Despite the action of rebelling against them being based, it is the implicit motivation that feels wrong and woke to me. As a sloppy analogy, imagine being against islam only because you consider gay sex an undeniable human right.

they're evil because they're conquering you
hth

[Oyster Sauce]

Humans that voluntarily agreed to be genetically modified were given privileges, since officially they would present themselves as benefactors, not parasites. Likewise, the suppressor field prevented reproduction of *******, at least until they all fell in line and possibly gave in to modification or hybridization into other races (see Breen's speech on instinct).

It's eugenic from the Combine perspective, not human's.

The soyentist power fantasy of rebelling against mandatory vaccination with the chuddies. Woke.

As I implied in my first post, the woke aspect lies in the reason why Combines are characterized as evil. While in the first game all alien invaders were bad, in the second one there are good aliens that you are supposed to like (coming from HL1 my first reaction was to shoot them, but ofc the game doesn't let you), and antlions go from deadly danger to annoying pest to cute pets real quick. The message is that diversity is good, it's just that combines are evil, and they are evil because they don't have democracy, don't let ******* reproduce and are really mean.

Despite the action of rebelling against them being based, it is the implicit motivation that feels wrong and woke to me. As a sloppy analogy, imagine being against islam only because you consider gay sex an undeniable human right.

Truly a dogshit ******** post

[Stack of Turtles]

don't agree react to my post disagreeing with you you moron