No idea. Probably something to do with the way games have been marketed, similar to sports teams where you have to pick a side and dick wave for them and all that other toxic masculinity BS.
Sega kind of started it with their advertising in the 90s.
It may be a bit of arm chair psychology, but I don’t really foresee people whose main hobby is pretending to be the main character of any given story, really excelling at empathy in the real world.
Video games and fiction in general, unfortunately often reinforce fascist ideology. That all society’s problems can be solved by one person if they are strong enough, fast enough, and smart enough.
It’s why you see so many “gamers” referring to others as NPC’s, because they only empathize with the main character of the game, and don’t really realize that there isn’t such a thing as a main character in real life. That even the most powerful man in the world is still subservient to a system of hierarchy of cause and effect.
No idea. Probably something to do with the way games have been marketed, similar to sports teams where you have to pick a side and dick wave for them and all that other toxic masculinity BS.
Sega kind of started it with their advertising in the 90s.
It may be a bit of arm chair psychology, but I don’t really foresee people whose main hobby is pretending to be the main character of any given story, really excelling at empathy in the real world.
Video games and fiction in general, unfortunately often reinforce fascist ideology. That all society’s problems can be solved by one person if they are strong enough, fast enough, and smart enough.
It’s why you see so many “gamers” referring to others as NPC’s, because they only empathize with the main character of the game, and don’t really realize that there isn’t such a thing as a main character in real life. That even the most powerful man in the world is still subservient to a system of hierarchy of cause and effect.