They collectively agreed on one thing, it seemed: the reason for all of the harassment, assaults, and overall rape culture (among the ones that could accept that it happened, of course) was "numale beta cucks." That's right, low testosterone feminist arglebargle boogeymen were responsible for it all. If they pounded down enough le bacon and had lumberjack beards and binge watched Jordan Peterson like they were supposed to, they'd "just make good games."
That latter part isn't hyperbole. These chuds concluded that manly Mad Men men would just focus on making good games. :agony-4horsemen:
nothing on reddit quite gets my goat like that place. not even politicalcompassmemes. because they're just So Fucking Angery about shit that doesn't even matter and they're unable to interpret any information in a way that doesn't validate their anger and even when it's something you'd think they'd have a halfway reasonable perspective on, like a shitty publisher that makes shitty games treating their employees like shit their natural impulse to be as spiteful and ugly and stupid as a person can be pushes them to side against the workers. they're so fucking reactionary in every sense and they don't even have the brain cell and a half necessary to realize it. all anyone ever has to do to refute the notion that video games have been a net good for society is point to these guys.
They're in this amazingly tiny bubble world where both their heroes and their villains barely exist to the rest of the world, the things they are enraged about have not even been discussion topics for years for everyone else, and their subculture of a subculture is simply that alienated and lonely.
They even conjure and maintain a harem of ego-boosting feeemale cartoon characters that are totally into them and agree with everything they say and are presumably DTF with any of them at any time in their imaginations.
I would pity them more if they weren't bigoted bullies adjacent to their fellows at KiwiFarms.
I remember visiting it several years back and thinking it was hilarious because I thought it was one of those meta circle jerk subs where everyone is just doing a bit, then eventually it hit me that they were serious and I honestly laughed even harder
They're so pathetic
There is indeed a form of hypermasculine ideal that becomes so sexually desirable that they lose all desire to have sex and focus on being at the top of all dominance hierarchies. I think it was popular at one point in Germany. Maybe Italy too I can’t remember
Sounds like that "Sigma Male" silliness going around today, too. Being an ideal is the load bearing part of the concept. It probably isn't realistically attainable for any significant number of people except as a facade.
It's bullshit and a lie when it comes to who would "just make good games" at ABK. A lot of old timer fratboy rapists from the "good old days" were already there, being creeps back in those same "good old days" too.
Lmao they concluded that toxic masculinity would result in less rape?!
Yes, yes they did.
They'd just "make good games." Nonpolitical. Probably with lots of sex pestery built in.
As someone who remembers KIA since the start, I'm genuinely amazed they found a way to make the sub like 3x worse. It's like if someone dug a really big hole, "no way they can keep going", and you come back in a few years and they're suddenly at the center of the Earth.
all the gullible people who actually swallowed the "ethics in game jouranlism" meme eventually caught on and left. it's just the burnt grease at the bottom of the pan now.
I always found the "Ethics in Games Journalism" thing incredible bc most games "Journalism" was either directly funded by publishers or relied heavily on gifts and freebies from publishers. It was always bullshit but it was such brazen bullshit that it was breathtaking.
These chuds concluded that manly Mad Men men would just focus on making good games.
Back in 2010, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told investors/analsysts at a tech conference that his goal "was to take all the fun out of making video games."
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/activision-games-to-bypass-consoles/1100-6226758/?fbclid=IwAR3Cs6wpMmkqn1Zn4jRxf9T_XXXDS_vZKJJjqU3cWCO6-pfgIvvxZ8fQ3I4
I remember when Jeremy Soule was outed as a
cw:sv
r*pist
and the thread on r/gaming had takes such as:
Women in the workplace were a mistake.
And that's what springs into my mind when someone says "Gamer" now.
All that matters is the treats must flow. The treat sellers must never be criticized or the treats might slow down.
From what I saw, they were more concerned that the treat flow would slow down, and that the threat to the treats would never have happened if only le bacon eating manly men were in charge of ABK, and "just made good games."
They had this incredible belief that fratboy rape culture was because of "soyboy beta cuck feminists in the workplace." That's right, toxic masculinity protects women from being raped, according to those :galaxy-brain:
Honestly that is the type of content we expect from a view into the brains of Reddit's brightest.
