That's true for most esports and regions, yes. It's a very precarised field, in a way, like culture. There's one Taylor Switft (survivorship bias, the myth of self-made hard-worker).

Not just esports, think K-pop boybands. And arguably, some of these may surely find themselves in different origins, like sports clubs and training camps (think La Masia from FCB). Also, this is missing an intersectional approach considering how gender and disability fit into this MASCULINE landscape.

Oh, don't turn this around. This is true. It is true for pianists in Spain, for athletic swimmers in Oklahoma, and for football players in Argentina. Child exploitation is a thing. Perhaps not self-overwork, but this is what society asks of them.

There's this thing in progressivism, where we should be more rested and have more leisure. I sorta agree insofar as it is sustainable, but if the right-wing politicians exploit themselves, we must keep up too. We can't fight a tank with a sunflower for now, I think. We can't fight populism with 3 hour talks.

So no, I deny there exists, at least more than anecdotically, this fog of mystery surrounding Korean players. Indeed, many lower ranks, may admire and find a new interest in their culture thanks to popular figures like that.

Stop this essentialisation. There's more than football in Europe, more than NBA and NFL in USA, and more than LoL in Asia. Surely, most people consume these. But you are making a kids these days scarecrow. Asia doesn't dominate Rocket League, Dota, CS:GO, Valorant, Overwatch, PUBG, or Fortnite.

Curiously, it dominates in MOBAs, like Arena of Valor, that have their headquarters on China. I am implying it has to do with marketing (and yes, also govern endorsements). Don't blame the players, blame the power.

Here: https://www.esportsearnings.com/games / https://escharts.com/

Modern sports are usually jobs. Such a pipeline is inherently speculative, not because you shouldn't make a living with art or fitness, but because in doing so, you are the product, and people will rate you.

Representation in toys, similar than in games. You consume stereotypes for Carnival: What do the boys wear, tactical and police gear. What about girls? Flying assistants or dressed princesses. Do you see many doctors during carnival? No.

To me, most festivals are grotesque self-fetishisations plagued by nationalistic discriminatory pride. Yes, they can be an acknowledgement of diverse oft-excluded identities (furries), and a visibilisation and acceptance of them, but they rarely are: Most of the times, they look like a parody of the parody, a cartoonish simulation of army/school uniforms, and an objectification via (female) sexualised dresses.

Reminder: Exclusion, Segregation, Integration, and Inclusion. Assimilation is homogenised inclusion, which dissolves any inclusion, because there is no other to include as there is no identity diversity.

https://mcie.org/think-inclusive/inclusion-exclusion-segregation-and-integration-how-are-they-different/

Furthermore, can you stop to think what budget the game may have?

I know that this is colonising, you don't have to shove it upon me... but isn't it a justified concession? Isn't the inherent peace-cooperation argument embeded in the game akin to the reparatory non-repetition argument that underlies historical memory?

For me, it is not, and I say this having played a large chunk of the game while focusing on utilitarianist EA ethics. It is not, because it may avoid tokenisation, sure, but Sam Porter is not a slave, he is a hero. Not only that, with although it prefaces the quest of reaching white people with anti-war logics, the game has war, the game has fights, and its sequel does too. These are surrounded with mysticism and fantastic events which cloud the statements and leave them open to interpretation in a way that most players are sure to miss them. It's not provocative, it's a eco-tourism chore. The cutscences and events are a McGuffin to visit places and trek through them to feel epic.

To influence a mass of players, and not just get critical acclaim it would have needed to be more straightforward.

Wow... it amazes me how Fullerton cannot see through privilege and stereotypes on this representation. Elitist art. Gibberish clichés. Come on, are you marvelling at the "metaphorical" representation of sadness with just a reclined posture and a black and white palette?

Torre Pacheco, Asalto al Capitolio, Portugal Lula de Silva. Milei is famously anarcho-capitalist. Alt right is presenting itself as anti-bureaucracy, anti-state.

Does it?

Design is also practice, it's a step in-between theory and application. It's about understanding logistics from the inside without causing real havoc or backfire. It's about learning to predict, to see the holes and gaps that may arise before they do. Design, at the end, is about bridging the theory-application divide. It helps solidfy theories while seeing their limitations in a safe space, dispelling the myth of sudden talent (from an illusion of explanatory depth), and warning against creeping normality by remaining revisionist (iterating) through the practice.

Could, may, underexplored... come on. I am stopping reading here.

Just thought I'd appreciate that the so-called "indispensable" and complex medicine sciences seem to rely on non-expert crowd information quite regularly!

Concerning! He's bought the brand washing attempts of big corps... am I being, rash? Is there no way out for Microsoft? Yes there is: One that doesn't include buying Activision despite being rotten? Profiting from endless games like CoD and Candy Crush? One that doesn't invest in data centers for AI that crush the global South? One that doesn't invest heavily in AAA titles like Halo, including its marketing, only to make a fraction of the investment sponsoring indies (and then laying them off)?

Then, no. I am not being rash. Microsoft owns a greedy ecosystem that includes Word and Excel. It asks people to pay for Windows licenses at 200€. Tried to do a Netflix with Xbox Game Pass. A big problem is that almost everyone knows Microsoft. Who knows Annapurna?

Reminds me of the school of moral ambition - https://www.moralambition.org/