There is something incredibly perverse and funny seeing the pronounjak crowd appropriate left-wing activist language and slogans and applying them to their culture war talking point du jour

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If you have don't have any clue what this word salad is, Sweet Baby inc is some video game story consultancy firm that gamers have decided is reaponsible for making every character gay, trans and ugly. Someone started a curated Steam collection for games they've worked on so freeze-gamers can boycott them

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    8 months ago

    really cool how they're like full on judeobolshevik cultural marxist conspiracy theorists, but mostly just about toys for children

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Gee back in my day the mark of the beast was a barcode on your forehead and now it's when a video game has a woman without makeup?

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      It makes no sense. The Mark of the Beast is supposed to be a Bad thing that Satan or the Antichrist or whomever forces people to take on

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        They don't even know what biblical prophecy they're yelling about

        They just learned it from the weirdos who yelled at them about it and the people they learned it from didn't know what the fuck they were talking about either

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          16 And he [the anti-christ] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

          17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

          18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

          The "mark of the beast" isn't a pentagram, which is a pagan symbol villainized by Christians that has no biblical backing. The mark of the beast is the number 666 placed on everyone's right hand or forehead - and everyone has to do it or they get cut out of society and exiled.

          So the chuds here are taking on the role of the anti-christ if they are forcing the mark onto other subjects, and they are trying to "exile" the "woke" elements in the industry (women, trans people, queer people, non-white people) through shaming them. They much better fit the beast in this metaphor than any woke people do.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        if they are applying the mark of the beast to games, that makes them the anti-christ/beast in this metaphor lmao. Not sure if they thought that one through.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        That's actually worrying though, children getting their heads filled with hateful content about the "wokes" making everything bad are going to grow up to be some really shitty people.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      8 months ago

      a classic Gamergate Moment was when notorious anti-video game culture warrior and disbarred lawyer Jack Thompson came out against Anita Sarkeesian and they immediately ate it up. Ridiculous people.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Maaan remember when Jack Thompson was the bad guy cuz he wanted to ban GTA San Andreas over the hot coffee thing or whatever?

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      Yes! The internet has altered the phenomenon a little, though. Today's panics have the nationwide presence, but no longer hold as much space in the national consciousness. So, instead of everyone being aware that there's An Outrage over jazz or Elvis Presley or D&D or heavy metal or 'satanic' preschools or M rated games, it's just pockets of people - smattered across the anglosphere, yet networked together - who are deeply outraged. Everyone who isn't immediately the target is kinda oblivious.

      There's your perennial capital-gee :freeze-gamer: outrage, a near inexhaustible eddy of consumerist vitriol with nearly no understanding of the labor or processes that go into production (thank god for Stephanie Sterling, doing the lord's work). There's also a running effort to ban books from [and/or] outright dismantle the public library system. Mostly driven by older crowd, disseminated through facebook groups and preacher pulpits. Whole lotta transphobia and homophobia there, plus the usual pear-clutching over sex-ed. A few months back there was a "zombie outbreak" style panic over a test of the national alert system. Just a decade ago, that was the kind of thing you'd hear jokes about on the radio. Today, you have to be either in the panic or actively spectating it to even hear about it.

      I'm sure there's more i'm just not aware of.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        8 months ago

        But these 4chan/gamer types are just so incoherent. They're all terminally hentai-brained perverts who crave and love all kinds of filth, like most of their outrage is specifically about video game ladies not being sexy enough for them to jack off to, but then also parrot this Pat Robertson-style conservative Christian pearl clutching culture war shit

        Like which one is it, pick a fucking lane

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 months ago

          It's what happens when a bunch of turbonerd reddit atheist types fall for the gamergate stuff and then fall in line behind the Ben Shapiros and Kermits of the world. People who pride themselves on being "free thinkers" but actually only want to feel smug and hate some imaginary enemy, which conservative Christianity is perfect for.

          So you get this weird thing where they pearl clutch like a conservative Christian about the "downfall of society" but still have all their edgy redditor ideas about women being sex objects. So they pearl clutch anytime they see a woman in fiction that isn't like the ones in their hentai.

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          8 months ago

          ¿Por qué no ambos?

          They're conservative Christians (and "atheists" who've never reexamined their own protestant assumptions), angry that it's not socially acceptable to treat women as things and even more angry that the popular escapist toys don't pander to their desire to treat women as things in fictional spaces.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            8 months ago

            It's just funny that the people who campaigned against Dungeons & Dragons, heavy metal, horror movies and pornography AND the nerds who liked those things are now in the same camp politically

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      What makes this extremely bizarre is that you can guarantee that 99% of these people grew up playing violent video games, watched family guy or South Park or horror and action movies when they weren’t allowed, and probably browse the gore and violence and crudeness of 4chan or related sites and accounts.

      They’ve simultaneously become more fascist while also artificially disliking the shit they once enjoyed, not out of maturity or natural disinterest, but because the unironic AVGNs on YouTube told them it’s not traditional family values. Dudes who are 35, at best, pretending to be mature old men. It’s not different than a child who sits at the adult table and pretend to be sophisticated by nodding his head along with the adults. But none of them are adults, they’re all the same age or younger

      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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        8 months ago

        He was a prominent Warhammer 40k personality. He was always right wing of the gamergate variety. But essentially his views got him in trouble with Games Workshop because his original name was "Arch Warhammer" and GW said that he wasn't allowed to use that name because they don't want to be associated with him.

        Then there was something really funny that happened. He had a subreddit r/archwarhammer but it somehow got infiltrated by people from r/sigmarxism, and the commie mod purged the regular users and converted the sub from a place to discuss Arch Warhammer into a place to discuss literal arches in the WH40k universe lol

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Sweet Baby Inc sounds like some coded CP/human trafficking group which is fitting because their audience becomes suicidally depressed whenever Japan remasters a game and DECREASES (not eliminate) the perversion towards underage characters