>Black
>Disabled
>Scottish
How come /v/ doesn't hate him?

How come /v/ doesn’t hate him?!
If /v/ DID hate him, then we wouldn’t be sitting here discussing it with each other, now would-
Oh, wait…

He was released before 2015 when this board didn't care about politics

he has character

>>715466074 (OP)
Everything you just listed about him is the joke

>>715466074 (OP)
Because those are just his exterior, rather than his defining traits.

>>715466074 (OP)
>alcoholics are disabled now

>>715466074 (OP)
Because he's a fun character, and none of those three things are treated as insurmountable burdens on which he's constantly opining.
Sure, in Meet the Demoman, he remarks on it. He says it's all made his life different, that he doesn't have many people to relate to. But he's still living a vibrant life that's just as wacky and vibrant as all the other characters. He never breaks the tone to make a bitter remark about losing his eye, or growing up Black in Scotland (He's actually a minor noble, and his parents always pushed him to be a comically high achiever.) He's not even a gritty alcoholic whose life is being ruined by booze. He's just fun.
He couldn't just be White, but he's a person first, not a Black person. It colors his backstory and personality, it doesn't define them, and it certainly isn't the totality of either. It's the same for all of Valve's Black characters.

>>715468506
please do not delude yourself it's like what >>715466441 said if he were released today you would be seeing threads about Valve being woke

>>715467189
he has no eye and sometimes a foot

>>715466074 (OP)
we did for awhile but got over it, you were still in diapers.

>>715468831
yes, and?

>>715466074 (OP)
WHOOOOOOOO

>>715466441
>He never heard of Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton.
Not gonna make it.

>>715466074 (OP)
He's a fun character and wasn't made to push any sort of agenda.

>>715468831
There are still games being released today that have good quality Black characters in them. People liked Marcus from Watch Dogs 2. I remember seeing anons saying he was the only reasonable, rational character in the whole fucking game. I saw people praising Infernus in the Deadlock threads, and that game's probably never even going to be finished.

Aside from a marginal group who've learned to screech at anything with a Black or gay character in it, the vast majority of the people who complain about "wokeness" are just reacting to really fucking bad, pandering, tokenistic writing that retards in high places think is "redemptive." When that doesn't exist, such as in games like Disco Elysium or Baldur's Gate 3 or Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, the backlash doesn't happen, not to nearly the same degree. Hell, anytime there's a thread about Debra Wilson's numerous appearances in video games, the prevailing statement is that "She's been a quality VO for a long time, she's just playing the game smartly and taking roles others are too proud for. She's not the problem, just a savvy woman taking advantage of it."

There are plenty of post-election-tourism examples. It's not a culture of automatic contrarianism against things that are "Actually, good, actually, you're just a bigot." It's contrarianism against legitimate garbage that tries to shield itself from criticism with progressive talking points and minority characters.

You'll see a few retards bitching and moaning about anything.

>>715469691

>>715469841
right there

>>715469841
>>715469938
Did you not see Paneles de Rojo get mocked for this nonsense when it first came out?

>>715469784
people here are trying too hard to fit in

>>715466074 (OP)
because there are niggers, and there are niggas

>>715470304
I've been here for 15 years. I remember when threads used to get derailed with horrible furry shock comics about school shooters and fatal vore. I was here when the guy found wasp-infected spiders in his Wii U on Christmas. I was here when Vidya Husbando threads were still a thing. And I was here when you could still actually discuss video games.

And of course, I was here for GamerGate. I watched it turn from "This is proof the whole industry goes as five publications go. You only need to convince five people to promote your product and every outlet follows suit." to "This woman is a talentless whore who should be punished for muscling in on our MASCULINE hobby."

>>715466074 (OP)
the /v/irgins making 300 reply bait threads were like 7 when the game came out and he predates the whole modern culture war. Also he's funny.

>>715469784
People liked Marcus? I thought he was just sort of a nothing character when I played through 2.

>>715473207
I liked Marcus's dynamic of being the straight man in a world full of insane caricatures. It felt almost like Idiocracy to me.

hes funny

>>715469245
They weren't posters here

Mo-WOOOOOHOHUHUAHAHAHAHAHAH LEH HOHHAAAAAAHHAHOHOH

>>715466074 (OP)
Because he's an actually good character that wasn't made for pandering but out of genuine passion.

>>715466074 (OP)
Because he debuted before GamerGate. Simple as.

>>715466074 (OP)
Wait, why do we hate Scotts and the disabled?