Activision Blizzard's New Diversity Game Tool Comes Across Terribly [Update]

What could have been an interesting article about what appears to be a stupid tool instead spends half its time insulting unnamed hypothetical people and half its time making borderline idiotic points like:

> I disagree with the basic premise that you can [use a] tool to [...] dissect [...] assumptions

You can't use tools to dissect your assumptions? I suppose that means all of experimental science is right out the window? What!? Maybe this tool is stupid, but what a leap!

> Perhaps this was inevitable, though. Tech in many ways is the most extreme manifestation of whiteness and capitalism, structures that have an active investment in defining, codifying, and filing away markers of identity for the sake of maintaining power and profit.

Ah yes, technology - invented by white capitalists to keep racial identity beaten down. Who comes up with this stuff? I'm not even going to get into the grammar of that nightmare of an assertion.

I just want to hear about this tool, which on its face is silly (diversity of fictional characters? Charts of body types? Numeric representation of "sexuality"!?!?), but this author can't give us 2 seconds to form our own opinion without feeling required to tell us how outraged we should be.

The final flaw is that after reading the whole article, I still can't understand who cares or why this matters. A game that maybe was diverse made a tool that maybe will or won't make it more or less diverse. Next to nothing could be less important, and next to nothing is less outrageous.