I feel like there's a lot of white dudes in here that are like "what do you mean? I'VE found it so easy to avoid the toxic minority of chuds. Must be a you-problem? If anything, YOU'RE discriminating against ME by bringing this up."
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It is a very offensive and exaggerated meme for the gaming community, by the way.
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This is unrelated to gamers.
There are plenty non-gamers who think like this.
There are plenty of gamers who don't.
This is just a subset of people.
It's a subset of people that overlaps with gamers in a big way. See: gamergate
What the hell is gamergate?
I disagree about the large overlap. It overlaps with a very loud minority that wants to take over the gaming space, same as they tried with the metal and goth fans in the early 2000 in my area. Don't fall for this shit. Most gamers nowadays are well balanced normal human beings.
That’s funny. You’d think being right wing would not align with being goth.
I knew some goths who were mostly apolitical, and so possibly susceptible to a small portion of that mindset (like I could maybe see a bit of manly manosphere type stuff) but in general that does not align with being anti establishment, which was, at least in the 90s, a large aspect of goth culture.
There was a large push in europe around the 2000,2010s by the neofolk chuds, trying to push into the goth scene. they were largely unsuccessful.
laughs in ancient punk
nazis don't care about the values embedded in the culture before they show up, and they won't listen to your critiques on how they don't fit. nazis don't hear nothing except bats and boots.
How dare you call me normal
lol
ok i am NOT normal, because most of my day consists of testing some games on my PC. But i gotta say that most people who are into gaming nowadays don't fit the cliche of "recluse NEET gamer" anymore.
So if you don't wanna feel normal, you are free to do so, as long as you aren't a piece of shit my dude ;-)
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i don't think many people who played games at the time were heavily invested in gamergate, but the gamergate gamers were a very loud and toxic minority. that's often who is being talked about when you say gamer, not the average person who plays games. it's the difference between gamer (neutral) and gamer (derogatory)
I literally don't call myself a gamer anymore because I don't want to be associated with that trash.
They can have the term, quite frankly, playing video games isn't a personality but I like the idea of clearly identifying the people that think it is.
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A majority of people are gamers now.
The subset of people who are like this, are a small minority; Both among gamers and the general population.
Gamergate included a small fraction of one gaming type, at best.
a subset of people are pieces of shit. Lots of people are gamers. Grandmas are gamers. Grandpas are gamers. School teachers are gamers. Doctors are gamers. CEOs call themselves gamers too. Cops are gamers. ICE chuds are gamers.
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Yeah, i am a gamer i don't give a fuck about what the right is trying to push regarding identity politics or "the woke left". Even as a long time gamer i believe that love has nothing to do with gender or specific body parts, it all comes down to personal preference and the freedom to choose what you are looking for. don't just pin this on the gamers please.
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Look, just don't bring your damn politics to my game about war and politics. We are just here to shoot ̶b̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ people and relax. I don't want to think about the implications behind the media I am consuming.
It's not just games anymore. Hence all the chuds losing their minds about "The Odyssey".
I think the funniest part about the Odyssey conservative backlash is that Ben Shapiro of all people actually liked the movie because it "has clear conservative messaging with the law of Xenia"
He also for some reason thinks that Xenia is a biblical addition to the film by the director. Not sure how he ended up with that conclusion.
There is nothing like republican Xenia:
- bathing guests in tear gas
- gifts of insults and oppression
- exchanging gifts such as children to appease the gods
- lodging guests in jail
- safe escort to their next ICE prison camp destination
- it’s considered rude to ask who the guests are before they have finished the meal offered to them. We don’t know who’s in the camps.
How can it be a Greek epic? They didn’t cast the most famous Greek hero of all!? Where’s Kevin Sorbo?! DISAPPOINTED
Funny enough, Kevin is a conservative chud, too!
Wasn't that the joke?
He also for some reason thinks that Xenia is a biblical addition to the film by the director. Not sure how he ended up with that conclusion.
Dear liberals,
You claim that you're not sure how he ended up with that conclusion, yet you're fully aware of what a media illiterate moron he is.
Curious.
i don't want colored folks in my historically accurate game about dragons and wizards!!!
Do you realize that you're currently doing precisely what you're trying to mock? — Discriminating and generalizing a group of people based on their hobby.
G*mers aren't people.
(Also, seriously. Trying to equate racial and gender discrimination, two things that a person can't influence. To a hobby)
Is this about chess?
Yep, it is political because the queen is better than the king.
I think it's undeniable there are a lot of very stupid people, and many of them are loud gamers.
One of the problems is humans are social creatures. Facts don't change minds. In-group pressure changes minds. (And sometimes horrific trauma, but only sometimes*). The typical person, confronted with an idea that contradicts a non-trivial belief, will evaluate primarily if the person presenting the belief is in-group. The same kind of message delivered by different people has very different outcomes.
With the Internet, idiots and assholes can find their own social groups to reinforce their shitty beliefs.
If we want to fix this, we'd have to do the long, expensive, and thankless work of getting them to see us as in-group, and getting them to then adopt better ideas. Incidentally, that's how the right wing has been operating.
Laughing at them for being fucking morons is satisfying, but it's like picking at a scab. It's not going to heal.
I'd rather have my body covered in scabs than have to be friends with people like them.
Fuck, I'd volunteer for a nudist motorcycle race. I can't even ride a bike.
I just want a fun game like KOTOR
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