It was a sad day when she hunted down every single straight male in the video games industry and shot them with a crossbow.
I was an adventurer once, until I took a crossbow bolt to the knee.
She ruined video games by
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Liking video games as a woman
No, didn't you hear? She had guys sneak into the Democratic party offices, and place bugs!
Or maybe i'm thinking of a different -gate
Nixon got impeached because he went woke and started recording himself examining video games with basic feminist critiques.
This gamergate thing was one of the many formative moments of my life that pushed me further towards the left. I think it was a crossroads for many people, waking many up, but also plunging everyone else into a deepening pit of reactionary thinking and general bigotry.
It's forever funny to me that people get older, their tastes change, and they attribute their lack of interest to the scene changing and find some villain that changed it.
You see it all the time in music. But it's especially funny to me with games for some reason.
There are so many games these days too. It's an absolute golden era for indie games, but the gamergate crowd only focuses on how the yearly generic military shooter might have pronoun options, or maybe there's a single gay character in an RPG with hundreds of NPCs.
I'm old enough to remember that a gamergate rallying cry was something like, "Don't change our games, make your own games." Imploring folk to make their own games with feminist narratives or whatever. Well we live in that reality now, where the "SJWs" or 10 years ago are making games, or big studios are trying to pander. And yet that was still wrong.
my fav is the type A type B body selection. Nevermind it's still generally 1:1 mapping with gender binary concepts, nevermind that many Japanese dev studios (bastions of leftist ideology) were using that at least as far back as 2004.
It's the ascendant left mad with power when it shows up.
Persona 2 had a gay romance the player could do, and that was from 1999. The first time I ever saw anything queer in a game was Star Ocean 2 though. You choose between a female or male character at the start, but the two romance options are available to either character, meaning both player characters are bi. That's also a Japanese game from 1999.
The Phantasmagoria games have explicitly queer characters and full on intercourse at several points.
I also like the option of choosing body types independent of gender binary. Some recent games have even allowed you to pitch the player character's voice up or down, which is super neat.
She must have bought all those video games just to pose in a picture with them
She has a closet full of beheaded dakimakura, too, doesn't she?
Did CHUDs forget that they won? When have CHUDs ever lost a culture war in the last 12 years? How about the last 44 years? Anything to the left of Reagan has been irrelevant for decades now.
You guys won already. Literally everyone except a select few people want the Turner Diaries to come true. Give it a rest, you've been doing a ten year long victory dance.
They don't feel like they've won. As long as the existence of anything outside of cis hetero crackers exist, they're mad. Anita Sarkeensian is still alive, and people know about her, so everything feels lost to them
What’s the ideology called where they rely on an amorphous enemy that they constantly move the goalposts on to maintain people’s sense of outrage to justify hellish domestic policy? I forget.
Struggle is mitochondria of fascism. Without eternal struggle and therefore imagined eternal failure, you eventually gotta stop doing the fascism. If they utterly destroyed an enemy they'd have to keep finding new ones, if they don't have an absolute victory they take it as a defeat. It's cause they're stupid.
Mainstream video games have become more diverse and less horny in the past decade though which is what these guys are mad about
chuds always feel like they're losing, no matter how much they win. That's why they keep pushing harder and harder
they can't be satisfied so you should just put them out of their misery
^video games the second you critique them
>she prematurely ruined video gamesPeople think like this can't be fixed. You'd explain an aspect about capitalism (what really ruined games) and they'd blame it on "wokeness" or something- Pit please
it's crazy fascist G*mers are still malding about her a decade later
And the funny thing is, the right WON that culture war.
Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40
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I don't think this is anywhere near right.
Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure progressivism is anything but dead.
The 2nd most popular game on steam right now is literally one where you can literally kill, skin and fuck both animals and humans.
In any other context this would be schizophrenic ramblings.
They are still focusing mental energy on Gamergate a decade later?
It's Anita Sarkeesian, a video game journalist who became one of the centerpieces of Gamergate for saying such radical things as "sexism in video games exists and is bad".
Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did, but gamers have hated her with all their might for over a decade now. Her youtube podcast still gets dislike-bombed over 10 years after Gamergate.
I just happened to be absent when gamergate happened and never bothered to look it up. It sort of feels like I skipped a cut scene accidentally cause my ass was on 4chan at the time.
Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did
Literally the only thing I'm aware of her criticism changing is making Emily playable in Dishonored 2.
"sexism in video games exists and is bad"
NOO!!!!I'd never heard of this person before or Gamergate, but sounds about right for gamers.
Don't look into this any more. Stay pleasantly unaware and happier
Her critiques weren't even anything over the top. It was very general lib feminism like "the fridged woman trope isn't nice" and "maybe not all female characters should be sex-objects with boob armor?"
she treated their favorite form of art (bideo games) as art, which is what they'd been whining for for years. if it's art, you can critique it as art.
they didn't like it.
If you dont like modern video games, make your own lol
Except chuds believe people are naturally talented and cant be bothered to learn what it takes to make games. Its a dog chasing its tail situation. Most people who go through the process of learning a skill generally tend to humble out, go more left in my experience
They sometimes do make their own games and then people who aren't freaks review them sometimes and they mald about that too and try to threaten, harass, and censor them.
I haven't been able to enjoy a single game since I saw her videos, and now I'm a fucking woman 🤬
Feminists will trans your gender and free you from the shackles of being a g*mer
