also, 1612 was the year of the explicitly anti-Jewish Fettmilch Uprising in Germany. that’s not a coincidence.
Whole lot of "leftists" showing they care more about treats than doing the bare minimum against antisemitism and transphobia.
also, 1612 was the year of the explicitly anti-Jewish Fettmilch Uprising in Germany. that’s not a coincidence.
Whole lot of "leftists" showing they care more about treats than doing the bare minimum against antisemitism and transphobia.
This is like when cyberpunk 2077 game snuck in version of 13/50 into the game.
Gamers seem genuinely beyond help at points.
Do you have a link? The only thing I found in a ddg was a reddit comment making the same allusion. Something about an in-game text?
I posted it on here, but sadly we can't access old posts anymore
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I think g*mers just never had a chance because videogame the artform is predisposed towards being reactionary:
Game development requires a great deal of capital investment compared to something like pottery or painting or writing a novel. To develop a AAA game, you need hundreds of people using expensive software while to write a poem, you just need a pencil and paper and you technically don't even need that. This investment will impact an inherent class character on the artform regardless of the politics of the developers.
Game development by software development standards is actually really hard, which means the people who actually have the skills necessary are more likely than not to be college educated in a STEM major. In other words, they are more likely to come from a labor aristocrat or petty bourgeois background or otherwise rub shoulders with generic libertarian techbros in their professional and social lives.
The artform doesn't have a pre-capitalist origin, which means capitalist realism is completely baked into the artform. And it really doesn't help that the two major centers of gaming development, the US and Japan, are both neoliberal regimes. Compared that with poetry, which has existed millennia before capitalism and has revolutionary poets, among them Mao and Ho.
I think a similar argument could be made for movies and TV, and honestly as a whole, all three artforms are predisposed towards being reactionary. There's a reason why reactionaries tend to launch their culture war campaigns from these artforms. And if you try to search for the least reactionary/most revolutionary artform by applying the argument backwards, then the artform most predisposed towards being revolutionary is poetry, which also tracks with the amount of poems composed by revolutionaries.