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ActivisionBlizzard has developed an internal tool that rates how "diverse" various attributes of characters are "Woman" is 5 "Arab" is 7 "One eyed" is 4 "Middle class" is 0 activisionblizzard.com/newsroom/2022/05/king-diversity-space-toolPermalink Look on archive.org
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i think there's a slim chance that this is so bad that it discredits this entire token-based way of thinking about representation within videogames? i'm probably being optimistic.Permalink Look on archive.org
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but let's dunk on it as hard as we can, just in casePermalink Look on archive.org
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also! while we're giving AB flak for this, let's not forget to also criticise the MIT Game Lab folks, for coming into a studio and trying to fix a complex social problem with a simple software toolPermalink Look on archive.org
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and my condolences to all the people who were fighting against this bullshit internally at AB. sorry the bad thing got online and now your job is going to be even harder.Look on archive.org