• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      Ecofascism is something we should be incredibly wary of. Just as the Nazis used genuine worries and social issues to present an “alternative socialism” so too will 21st century fascists use the most pressing issues of today to trick people into supporting their toxic ideas.

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        “woke games are pro oil”

        I mean… what with all the sodomy and all, lube is practically priceless…

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      there’s an inverted pyramid of conservative intelligence. at the base top you’ve got your think tank fellows and your corporate lobbyists, people who can technically string a sentence together. as you head deeper, you meet the libertarians, the small business owners, the militia larpers, the Qanon and facebook boomers, and finally, at the very nadir are the geek fascists. these people would throw up if they had to read a book. their beliefs are incomprehensible and inconsistent because their only guiding principle is that of a howling infant demanding milky and blanky, and to that end they’ve adopted the most diseased talking points and catchphrases of everyone else in the pyramid.

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        Sure, but almost everybody else in the pyramid thinks that driving an EV transforms you into literally Pete Buttigieg, which is hardly surprising given that these people operate in a media bubble largely bankrolled by oil billionaire families. My only explanation for this so far is that the particular geek fascists behind this are raging Musk fanboi techbros.

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    Critical support for the fbi and the forces of capitalism to crack down on g*mergate 2rs to keep Black Trans Indigenous Women Of Color in all video games in order to appease Satan or something.

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      8 months ago

      Coombrained gamergaters are so porn addicted that their perception of what attractive human beings look like is warped to the point that if they aren’t literal hentai characters they can’t feel anything.

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    The game, more inclusive, is sold and fails in sales

    [Horizon Zero Dawn] won numerous awards and sold over 24.3 million units by April 2023, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games

    Horizon Forbidden West received generally positive reviews from critics, and had sold over 8.4 million units by April 2023

    lolwut

    Also, the Israel flag and ”Jewish citizen” are extremely :sus: in this context.

    Convervatism is the new punk rock, that’s why we’re complaining that new media promotes hedonism and Satanism just like Bible thumpers did in the 80s and 90s!

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      Also, the Israel flag and ”Jewish citizen” are extremely in this context.

      Antisemites gotta antisemite…

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      The difference is 80’s and 90’s conservatives complained about any sexy images as being pornographic smut. The gamegate types only have an issue with hedonism when it’s someone else’s pleasure. Their pleasure, then they better get big booba waifu 24/7 or else it means they’re being oppressed.

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    I can’t believe these chuds still parrot this “Go woke, go broke” shit when it so verifiably isn’t true. Apex Legends, Overwatch, League of Legends have all the minorities you could ever want in their games and they’re still at the top of their genres. Apex has a trans woman voiced by an actual trans VA, to the point that they might actually be sincere about it and not just ticking off boxes. Cyberpunk and Baldur’s Gate let you be gay and us-foreign-policy, they let you be a girl with a penis and everything too. They didn’t go broke, did they?

    It’s so bizarre how they can ignore all this but then point to a single financial failure that has diversity and go “See, told ya! Go woke, go broke!”

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    It’s cool that sexism gives me CPTSD to the point where it hurts to even read this bullshit. And then I feel angry with myself for “letting it get to me”

    I fucking hate these nerds, capital G gamers. All they do is take energy away from real issues and ruin gaming by turning it into edgelord shit.

    No, you losers, games would not be better if they were all waifu porn.

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      Thing is these types of people are losing, gaming has opened up into so many different niches and different types of communities. You have more small time indie devs via ich.io making games that are either very artistic in expression or done with the goal of showing the perspectives of different groups, Pagan Autogeny for one (pretty much a game metaphor for transitioning).

      You even have wholesome games, which ‘Gamers’ despise, with he focus of unwinding and relaxing as well as even the major gaming industry realizing including more people into games means more money (yes trite capitalist shit) but hey it gets the ball rolling with having more than just angry depressed buzzcut white man as the protag (mid 2010s action protags anyone?).