Pour one out for a real one

It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho

  • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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    1 year ago

    I can’t believe you can accurately trace the alt right directly back to people mad at her videos about games.

    What a stupid timeline.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I was there when 4ch!n dropped its long standing "we are not your private army" policy to become the private army of Zoe Quinn's ex boyfriend. doomer

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Problem is: she wasn't exactly good herself... but her comments were tame beyond measure.

      They were tame and people still beat her up for them.

      And it spawned a lot of ultra-right and alt-right people too.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It was mostly technical reddit-logo tier pedantic stuff, like how actually killing the dominatrix nuns in the Hitman game wasn't actually rewarded by the mission design therefore everything else she said objectively wrong very-intelligent

          • Vladimir_Slipknotchenko [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Normally I am the “technically correct is correct and therefore good” kinda guy, but yeah. I’ve encountered the type of reactionary thought you refer to. Using valid, albeit simple, logic chains while being as obtuse as possible. It’s very frustrating.

            Side note: I always viewed the nun motif in the Hitman games as tying into the theme of 47 lacking a relationship with his mother. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts as to whether this is off base or not.

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The Americans wouldn't last ten seconds if Charlie Hebdo got translated into English. The closest I can think of to a left-wing equivalent of stonetoss.