Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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Gamers aren't being persecuted... but they should be.
The next five year plan - Building a really big school locker sufficient to house the entire gamer population.
Honestly Valve should do a purge on this shit. People who brigade tag things like this get banned from using Steam community features.
Tagging cop games villain protagonist is funny though
MFW sorry cop was the only cop I could play in Disco Elysium. 
Those libertarians could never lift a finger for anything like this.
Ah yes the two races, white and POLITICAL.
Just like the two genders, male and political.
Or the two sexual orientations, straight and political.
When you're used to privellage equality feels like persecution.
This is probably going to piss off people who actually want to play political sim and games about politics.
gate has nonjokingly been a disaster for the human race.
There's an argument to be made that GG was responsible for neo-fascism blooming in the west. In the very least it was a big push to getting Trump elected and establishing the alt-right.
I will make that argument. I was there, Gandalf, 3,000 years ago, when the strength of gamers fail. Looking back, we were 150% watching white male gamers being radicalized in to neo-fascism, but I at least didn't recognize the scope or importance of what was happening.
Me too. I watched all the ingredients for an embarrassingly nerdy but still dangerous beer hall putsch mix together and form a fascist brew in real time.
It's not a very unpopular argument, Steve Bannon even had his part in G*merGate.
It tru. Which, like... fukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Even if GG isn't responsible, Bannon and others like him were absolutely trying to spread fascism through gamer outrage well before GG really started
Bannon's goldfarming business on World of Warcraft, by his own admission, gave him many of his pre-
regime political front ideas: specifically, that were a bunch of easily led, credulous assholes just waiting for something to rally behind.
It says something about the state of America that you can't get people to care about politics by talking about health care, mass incarceration, housing prices, etc. But tell them woke is why vidja games are bad and they're ready to go for fascism.
The "nothing ever happens, propaganda has no effect on me" head-in-grounders crowd has claimed that gate had zero influence on the election, but it was a squeaker, and even an upset for many in the ruling class that actually did put their money and expectations behind 
. A nudge was enough.
And beyond that it's created a persistent, ongoing cultural shift in how media is viewed and evaluated. And it was 10 years ago, a lot of those gamegaters who were teenagers and young adults are edging in to their 30s, in to real big kid jobs where they have some degree of influence.
And it was 10 years ago, a lot of those gamegaters who were teenagers and young adults are edging in to their 30s, in to real big kid jobs where they have some degree of influence.
And some are old enough to already be very, very divorced, and it shows, now shepherding the next generation into following them. 
No fault divorce, but at what cost?
Lol fuck. ahhhhhhhh
Isn't JD Vance on record whining about The Last Jedi on social media
Reactionaries hated The Last Jedi because feeemale and political 
I hated The Last Jedi because Rian Johnson can make an entertaining whodunit movie, but "hehe GOTCHA! AGAIN!" is obnoxious and tiresome and out of place in the Star Wars franchise.
We are not the same.
One thing that struck me about the Jan 6 riot is that, especially compared to the 2017 unite the right rally, everyone was fucking old. My read on that is that Facebook and it’s corresponding propaganda style has been much more fertile ground for activating reactionaries IRL than 4chan and Reddit has. There’s definitely millions and millions of gamer chuds, but they seem over represented online and underrepresented in voting booths, protests and riots
I was thinking about how while it’s nothing new that reactionary groups attempt to co-opt youth subcultures, this one is maybe their most successful attempt of all time in terms of both per capita conversion and raw numbers.
Yeah, it's not a new thing at all, but gate was remarkably and lastingly successful compared to duds like, say, "Metalgate" that tried to ride its coattails but was such a failure that only fucking Green Day could be found to say that SJWs were ruining metal.
I don't need to tell you that Green Day is not metal and never was and fuck them anyway.
This game has looked like a complete dud that no one asked for to me from everything I've seen, but of course the vast majority of gamer complaints have seemed to be just frothing about WOKE DEI ESG 
I recently realized that the vast majority of content that this crowd whines about isn’t very good on its own merits. For example, The Acolyte, which was middling at best from what I watched, got it hard from the Star Wars reactionary fans while Andor, which has an only slightly less diverse cast, did not. This indicates to me that while these people are sincere racists and probably really do believe that diverse casting signals a conspiracy against the white race, they also lack conviction and will fall silent if the treats are tasty enough.
they also lack conviction and will fall silent if the treats are tasty enough
If it's absolute hog slop trash they'll oink and gobble it up, sometimes just for the performative gesture of "THIS IS NOT WOKE SO IT MUST BE GREAT!"
That Harry Potter pogrom game where you play a magic SS officer cracking down on "goblins" 
comes to mind.
Even if it was the greatest game in existence...there are like five of these on Steam that are free to play.
They're asking for the equivalent of $40 for this? lol, nope.
Political SIM FPS???
Only one of those I can think of is JFK reloaded
I really wish the vast majority of "hero shooters" were just co-op games. Sweaty PvP is so done for me. That's part of the reason I like Warframe and Wayfinder and other "hero" style games. I like saving the day with the homies. These Concord characters all look fine to me, I think they'd make for fun co-op heroes
I enjoy co-op a lot more than sweat pvp.
I still play some pvp games, but mostly because a lack of co-op I haven't already burned out of.
These are the subset of gamers that piss me off to no end... The early access game review bombing for poor optimization numbnuts are their own kind of special, but these folks just thrive on hatred...
Every fucking steam discussion has a "WoKe GaMe?" Post...
Reich wing propaganda working it's way through society... We can thank Steve Bannon partially for wanting to aim for indoctrinating "rootless white male gamers"
The early access game review bombing for poor optimization
imo don't do early access if you don't want real criticism, it was supposed to be the whole reason you release in EA in the first place not just as a marketing hype generator
Why is fucking Sony releasing games in early access to begin with
CW: racism
(desert-skinned beige people with 80% brown hair is much better)
So weird they picked this to hate on, cause it seems like a bit of an Overwatch clone, which also shares a lot in common with League of Legends.
I know Overwatch has a few, but I played a lot of League and there are plenty of non-vanilla characters.
These people just hate for hate’s sake.
They latched on to it because it's total dogshit.
It's a Sony title that didn't crack 700 concurrent players on its first day.
Now there's two possible reasons for this, one is that it's a shitty looking generic paid pvp hero game. There's literally half a dozen better free options with already existing communities and player bases.
The other possibility is that it's because there's characters in it that aren't straight white males.
It would be like saying that the reason Steven Segal movies aren't popular is because it stars a straight white guy and not because it's a dogshit product by a dogshit person that looks worse than half a dozen free readily available options.
It's because it's shit and an easy target as a result.
Anything that's bad is because of le woke. They ignore it in anything good.
I sincerely wish the sight of these groups causes intense psychic backlash and physical pain. This will be extra funny considering the vast majority of the world is non white. Maybe this explains why they're adamant to vote fuckers that wanna accelerate climate catastrophe especially since it will hit the global south the hardest first.
Much like whiteness being the absence of race, reactionaries want you to see them as the absence of politics.
Gamers should be shot
Hmm, I can add political to every game >.>
