It's not gamers in and of themselves that are the problem. It's the way corporations are able to package and sell personalities to their consumers wholesale. Look at the adult Disney freaks or the Star Wars horde or the Marvel drones. It's branding as identity.
If people got half as heated about the concentration camps at our borders as they do about Marvel vs DC or Sony vs Microsoft or what Hogwarts house they fit into, then we might not be living in such a hellscape.
But it's easier to paint over the rough patches of reality with the shiny new piece of plastic or mass media.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the fact that my taxes go toward the missiles the Pentagon uses to blow up schools and hospitals abroad. The evil of America is inescapable. I try to do my part, but I'm really just another cog in this machine. It's an ugly, sobering thought, and most Americans don't want to think that hard. Not when the new game consoles are coming out.
I don't think it's that simple. Obviously companies want to control and shape those identities but they can do it only to an extent. I'm sure most publishers would prefer that their fans were woke, so they didn't have to navigate the contradictions between expectations of modern woke corporate culture and reactionary parts of their fanbase.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it's nature drawn to the right.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it’s nature drawn to the right.
Plus a heavy dose of capitalist alienation. If those gamers weren't being failed by our system so hard they would probably be your typical neoliberal techbro dipshits. Its that white middle class ingrained idea that they deserve better because they are part of the in group, but then getting their legs cut out from under them by the material realities of our system, and then the resulting social fallout that keeps them insular and unable to pursue relationships, reinforcing the alienation and creating a death spiral to reactionary gamer scum.
That is a good point. "Heated gamer moment" was coined for how often these white guys will resort to slurs when they start losing at their precious online shooter.
Might be a little of column A, a little of column B
It's not gamers in and of themselves that are the problem. It's the way corporations are able to package and sell personalities to their consumers wholesale. Look at the adult Disney freaks or the Star Wars horde or the Marvel drones. It's branding as identity.
If people got half as heated about the concentration camps at our borders as they do about Marvel vs DC or Sony vs Microsoft or what Hogwarts house they fit into, then we might not be living in such a hellscape.
But it's easier to paint over the rough patches of reality with the shiny new piece of plastic or mass media.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the fact that my taxes go toward the missiles the Pentagon uses to blow up schools and hospitals abroad. The evil of America is inescapable. I try to do my part, but I'm really just another cog in this machine. It's an ugly, sobering thought, and most Americans don't want to think that hard. Not when the new game consoles are coming out.
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I don't think it's that simple. Obviously companies want to control and shape those identities but they can do it only to an extent. I'm sure most publishers would prefer that their fans were woke, so they didn't have to navigate the contradictions between expectations of modern woke corporate culture and reactionary parts of their fanbase.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it's nature drawn to the right.
Plus a heavy dose of capitalist alienation. If those gamers weren't being failed by our system so hard they would probably be your typical neoliberal techbro dipshits. Its that white middle class ingrained idea that they deserve better because they are part of the in group, but then getting their legs cut out from under them by the material realities of our system, and then the resulting social fallout that keeps them insular and unable to pursue relationships, reinforcing the alienation and creating a death spiral to reactionary gamer scum.
That is a good point. "Heated gamer moment" was coined for how often these white guys will resort to slurs when they start losing at their precious online shooter.
Might be a little of column A, a little of column B