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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I really don’t think do man. Sarkeasian was on to something when they said the media we consume shapes us and having lived the media zeitgeist of the early 2000’s I can tell you we lived in a factory for making entitled little shitheads. There’s a reason why they got so roided up at her specifically and it’s because she read the industry for filth

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Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Meanwhile, Im just trying to earn bells so my little duck guy can have a fancy new bridge in animal crossing.

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- Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Capitalist pig
  
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- sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Animal Crossing is pretty nontoxic. Also it just wasn’t in the cultural zeitgeist at all during the G4 guygaming era and that’s probably related
  
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  - Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Its a bad example of “reading the industry for filth” because the entirety of the industry isn’t filth.
    
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    sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The industry made a certain kind of thing financially successful and culturally. I’m sorry you feel like that’s a moral judgment on you, it doesn’t change what happened
    
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Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You gotta split that up.

Sarkeesian was specifically trying to rile the rightwing chuds up. I applaud her for making that awful segment of gamers visible, so we all could see what was hidden there, but at the same time you have to acknowledge that there were a lot of gamers - i would even say a majority - that weren’t part of this shitstorm.

I never was against Sarkeesian, even tho she wasn’t really speaking for me, but she made a part of gamer culture visible that was at that time hiding beneath the surface. Gaming society at large also made clear that they don’t want that kind of conduct to be the standard. It took a while, but if you filter out the loud majority that rages against everything they decide is woke, you can see that most gamers don’t want to be associated with this hateful crap.

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- sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s a new take to me. Literally not trying to sealion, I actually want to know how that has come about.
  
  She wasn’t really speaking to me either, I played games that had the tropes she was talking about but it really didn’t change how I feel about them. I thought she was looking at the nature of writing, not games themselves
  
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  - Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Seeing people have sincere discussion on important and contentious topics makes me really happy. I’m curious to see how yalls discussion goes ☺️
    
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    sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I was hoping so. I think mimic may have blocked me after seeing how ugly the thread with the other guy got. I may have to just look into that possibility they mentioned myself
    
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