I actually agree that letting them sell the idea this was a boycott was a tactical loss but I don't see how it's a loss overall.
The only loss you're suggesting that occurred here is the ability for the right to say "haha you lost" on the terms that they set for it to be a boycott that would wreck the game.
This is not what it was. And they certainly don't gain anything from that.
What have they gained? What have we lost?
It emboldens those already against us, gives pause to those who tepidly support us, gives a bad first impression to those unfamiliar with us, and makes a lot of us feel discouraged about our mission. It’s not just optics, it’s propaganda and propaganda matters a lot.
I think we disagree on almost every one of these points.
It has emboldened the pro-trans side in my experience, significantly more than before where they would have been utterly fearful of speaking their mind about a game like this or standing up for themselves. I don't give a shit if it gives pause to tepid supporters, tepid supporters aren't supporters they're cowards that haven't picked a side when one side is genocide and the other is not. I don't see how it has discouraged a lot of us, activity is sky high and a massive quantity of people feel hugely empowered by having had their first experience of getting their message (however distorted) into media. The experience of actually being able to move the media and journalists is itself a win. The experience that through the use of collective shitposting you can actually have real effects on discourse is a real one.
I view this is having been the left collective tentatively trying to figure out how to perform its own gamergate.
All I can say is that right now, with all these anti-trans bills getting passed, transition being criminalized, trans people getting erased from public life, and a barrage of propaganda equating us with pedophiles, this is the least positive I have ever felt about our standing as trans people.
All of that is not a result of this though.
I think you are allowing despondency caused by other things to colour the judgement you are applying to this particular thing.
but it pisses me the fuck off that our team just wasted a month fighting over a fucking PS5 game.
I don't see why you think any time at all was "wasted" on this. This is treat time. Treat time would have been treat time regardless of whether or not that treat time included a culture war within it.
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Can you quantify that belief in something other than sales?
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I actually agree that letting them sell the idea this was a boycott was a tactical loss but I don't see how it's a loss overall.
The only loss you're suggesting that occurred here is the ability for the right to say "haha you lost" on the terms that they set for it to be a boycott that would wreck the game.
This is not what it was. And they certainly don't gain anything from that.
What have they gained? What have we lost?
I think we disagree on almost every one of these points.
It has emboldened the pro-trans side in my experience, significantly more than before where they would have been utterly fearful of speaking their mind about a game like this or standing up for themselves. I don't give a shit if it gives pause to tepid supporters, tepid supporters aren't supporters they're cowards that haven't picked a side when one side is genocide and the other is not. I don't see how it has discouraged a lot of us, activity is sky high and a massive quantity of people feel hugely empowered by having had their first experience of getting their message (however distorted) into media. The experience of actually being able to move the media and journalists is itself a win. The experience that through the use of collective shitposting you can actually have real effects on discourse is a real one.
I view this is having been the left collective tentatively trying to figure out how to perform its own gamergate.
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All of that is not a result of this though.
I think you are allowing despondency caused by other things to colour the judgement you are applying to this particular thing.
I don't see why you think any time at all was "wasted" on this. This is treat time. Treat time would have been treat time regardless of whether or not that treat time included a culture war within it.