Not really, they were often really serious about it which made it all the more ridiculous. Sometimes it’s a fun circlejerk sub, sometimes it’s presenting their slacktivism almost as being some gaming vanguard and fighting a war against the game.
I used to love that sub, but these days they are only focused on the outrage culture. Nothing inherently wrong with that, I like to laugh at people who take their video game waifu too seriously. I initially joined that sub because it seemed like the best place to have level-headed conversations about overhyped games, like the Witcher 3. Everywhere else seems to love that game as if it’s the second coming of Jesus, but if you find some places that didn’t like the game, they swing a bit too hard on the opposite site, so you can’t have a conversation with them either. I found plenty of people in that sub who loved that game, but knew where the shortcomings were.
It made people more honest in their transphobia. Everyone knows hog leg is fascist. So instead of transphobes hiding their feelings, now they say how they love Harry Potter more than they love the idea of everyone having rights, and I know which people are the fascists easier.
I’m shocked the online outrage from gamingcirlclejerk didn’t work
It’s like the sub made for taking the piss out of gaming criticism and critique did what it was supposed to do.
Not really, they were often really serious about it which made it all the more ridiculous. Sometimes it’s a fun circlejerk sub, sometimes it’s presenting their slacktivism almost as being some gaming vanguard and fighting a war against the game.
It was pretty funny.
I used to love that sub, but these days they are only focused on the outrage culture. Nothing inherently wrong with that, I like to laugh at people who take their video game waifu too seriously. I initially joined that sub because it seemed like the best place to have level-headed conversations about overhyped games, like the Witcher 3. Everywhere else seems to love that game as if it’s the second coming of Jesus, but if you find some places that didn’t like the game, they swing a bit too hard on the opposite site, so you can’t have a conversation with them either. I found plenty of people in that sub who loved that game, but knew where the shortcomings were.
It worked. I stopped being friends with everyone who still likes Harry Potter these days, and now I’m safer from transphobes.
Would you have otherwise been friends with transphobes or Harry Potter fans? What about the boycott changed stuff?
It made people more honest in their transphobia. Everyone knows hog leg is fascist. So instead of transphobes hiding their feelings, now they say how they love Harry Potter more than they love the idea of everyone having rights, and I know which people are the fascists easier.
I think the assumption that everyone knows about the online/Twitter drama is far far from the truth.
funny, because one of the nicest characters in the game and one that gets a lot of in-game praise from students is trans. the barkeep at hogsmeade