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These people are always so vague about what exactly is wrong. Because if they actually articulated exactly what they don't like seeing in media, they'd sound like stupid babies. Instead they go oh well THIS group doesn't like what they're seeing... Do they? Y'all see how well Balders Gate 3 did

It's also just a classic move for grifters to co-opt a group name to try to validate their dumbass opinions. Gamers is an easy name. It's such a vast population & isn't a strong identity, doesn't feel worth defending. What qualifies a gamer? Has played a game. Ben Shapiro speaks for gamers lol

All the game I played taught me to help anyone who asks just for the experience

There's bad people in every fandom but Gamers get hit with it hardest cause Twitter and tech bros uplift assholes over the people doing good things to save and better the lives of total strangers.

Maybe right wing gamers just really, REALLY love being unable to buy RAM and groceries?

Iirc romero, and id in general, actually has nothing to do with the ad campaign and they were cringing as hard as the rest of us lol

Romero’s transition from “90s edgelord” to “cool uncle” has been a blessing to watch.

Which is insane as someone who's primarily been a PC gamer my whole life. Ah yes the chest-thumping, masculine exhilaration of running an amusement park or a zoo, or clicking around in a prerendered environment to solve puzzles. Yes I'm being facetious, and yes I played DOOM/Quake but still c'mon.

Not totally disagreeing with you to be fair, zone chat attracts arsehole cranks.

tbh the lack of votekick in MMOs leaves them having a bit of a Nazi bar effect in chat. Like I'm just trying to click stuff till the number goes up, not learn the latest bullshit /pol/ came up with. But if some dude is making chat unusable and we could votekick him? Shit might change

or look at elder scrolls or fire emblem with a fuck ton of LGBT+ positivity in the community

The biggest games are the most toxic and the less woke one In particular halo in his glory days was... Quite an experience online

It's also just every outlet supporting those views. There's way bigger reporting on something like a new cod or gta than there ever would be on something like sims or ESO Including Steam+X being the hotspot for all the vile stuff that they regurgitate elsewhere

All HoYo needed to do was take away people's blorbos and suddenly the gamers did indeed rise up. The collective response to the VA strike from even supposedly "leftist" gamers was nothing short of disgusting.

This is what I got so far, let me know if it's one of these. chatgpt.com/s/t_6ad103d8...

Let me know if you find the article. I want to see it. Public interest is real here

This is more than a thought.

man, I miss Lana's writing

The unfortunate irony of using an image from a Tim Schafer game for this article

Are we bees or are we flies??

Genuinely, my own personal experience with gamers had the majority of them (at least the ones I met and hung around) as way further left than the stereotypes would suggest. It's just that the ones who *aren't* are so much louder and transparently awful, because they want to make sure they're heard.

You love to see it.

I’ve always said that online hate mobs function as volunteer Pinkertons for the games industry

He doesn't even speak for most devs, much less all Gamers

I'm not so sure, it seems like GamerGate predated the big push toward unionization by a number of years, and some of the initial PR response was actually to do things like contribute funds to Feminist Frequency (an early GamerGate target) hoping to soften criticism toward their own games.

I have always felt that "gamers" fall into two types of people. Sicko Wierdos (Positive) who play all kinds of games with plot lines that expand thier views. And their Ball and Gun Gamers, that may clock more hours than other groups but only play like 3 games.

Like maybe a game that just came out isn't gonna have a black character in it anymore or a game won't have gay romance options but like... is it really worth paying more for games/PCs/consoles, dealing with shitass AI generation in games, and nobody making games allowed to keep their jobs?

I dont remember where but I distinctly recall seeing a study that showed that if some shithead complains about "woke" in video games then it's statistically certain that he does not purchase more than one video game a year and almost definitely uses video games as a talking point rather than a hobby

This clown dislikes “left wing politics”, bur probably also unironically proclaims “games are art” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ But as we know, the right can’t art, and they can’t stand that so many of the games they love have left wing thought baked right into the crust

Gamers: reminder, this is not a game. Don't mess up or the big boss gets 10 times bigger and all his boss friends join him to crush your entire universe for the next 2 years. Get out more. Save the world. #Vote for the future of humankind. #Midterms 🇺🇸😉

oh my god this loser is running again? fucking hell

I'm not unconvinced that if these guys just assumed that every time they hear someone bitching about something "left" or "woke" and assumed that 10x as many people were in support of it the whiners would just die out and life would get better for all of 'em.

"Is Gaming Woke??" The stupidest question ever posed since the Royal Game of Ur and consistently the answer is "Let people enjoy games" and "Fuck whatever you're on" is finally answered once and for all by republicans who don't play videogames. Yeah, sure, gamers will rise up, no problem there...

One of my favorite communities has been Monster Hunter. The pure ADRENALINE the voice chat gets when we complete a hunt together is unlike anything I've ever felt.

*unprepared. Sorry. This was a half awake stream of consciousness that doesn't fully grasp what I'm trying to say.

I think I'm trying to say gamers aren't a monolith and some of that chud reputation is warranted. The communities around individual games and genres are pretty different despite this constant narrative it all (for) teenage lads.

Jesus Christ. What a dickhead.

The push by companies to make every game a graphics hogging AAA billion dollar "investment" attracted allot of those venture capital tech bro types too So a lot of assholes came from that as well I think