Gaming's "Toxic Positivity" Problem

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• EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you think gamers are too positive you’ve never played an online game in you life cx

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Toxic Positivity is a phrase that doesn’t refer to gamers online behavior in game, but rather the way that some will violently defend a product or company from any criticism like they’re shilling. Like how gaming media and online forums were trying to villanize the people criticizing Concord before that spectacularly failed.

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    • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Negative comments are fine but players are too black and white, they will say a game is “trash” because they don’t like one thing about it. Often they haven’t even played it. I think too many gamers are overwhelmed by choice or just spoiled.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With the state of modern gaming, I can’t fault anyone who jumps down the throat of anyone speaking positively. It’s such a fucking predatory industry at this point, full of shitfuckery, and personally I don’t want to give any positive reinforcement to any games that have invasive DRM, online-only, kernel-level access, in-game ads and microtransactions, 3rd-party accounts, 3rd-party launchers, 3rd-party EULAs, prolific data-mining, etc. All of these should be deal-breakers. Things are this way because we allow them to be.

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    • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I want to live in a world where that is a problem worth making videos and writing essays. I guess some people are too bored.

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    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Understandable🐕that definitely is a problem, I wasn’t sure what op was talking about since the post seems to have the wrong video attached

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  • mods_mum@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you watched the video you’d know your comment is completely misplaced.

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    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I made that comment the video was wrong

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is super real, but I feel like this will probably not be well receieved on Lemmy.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like this problem might be somewhat endemic to the US?

    In my experience, US culture in general is a lot more positive about everything. Like, if someone from the US is not praising the living shit out of something, that means they didn’t like it.
    Whereas here in Germany, it’s usually the other way around. If you don’t find anything to grumble about, that’s the highest form of praise.
    Obviously, US culture isn’t one massive blob, the extremely positive folks are probably just those I notice the most, but maybe that’s also what the video author is fed up with.

    Well, and then people from the US tend to also be a lot more positive about companies in general, presumably a remainder from Cold War propaganda. The journalists/entertainers from Germany and the UK that I watch, do criticize games quite directly…

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• dwemthy@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s with all the antisemitic dog whistles on screen whenever he’s talking about people fawning over shitty games?

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