Look, just don’t bring your damn politics to my game about war and politics. We are just here to shoot ̶b̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ people and relax. I don’t want to think about the implications behind the media I am consuming.
Gamer Logic 😡
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Elting@piefed.social 10 hours ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah! Why are modern games so political?! The classics were so much more nuanced. I remember when Wolfenstein 3D came out… My favorite part playing that game was how ambiguous the creators were about the inspiration for the bad guys.
Steve@communick.news 10 hours ago
This is unrelated to gamers.
There are plenty non-gamers who think like this.
There are plenty of gamers who don’t.
This is just a subset of people.Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
It’s a subset of people that overlaps with gamers in a big way. See: gamergate
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 hours ago
I disagree about the large overlap. It overlaps with a very loud minority that wants to take over the gaming space, same as they tried with the metal and goth fans in the early 2000 in my area. Don’t fall for this shit. Most gamers nowadays are well balanced normal human beings.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 hour ago
There’s also a subset of people who make up statements based on nothing more than them wanting to believe what they’re saying is true that overlaps with gamers in a big way. See: your comment.
So I guess you’re a gamer too.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
i don’t think many people who played games at the time were heavily invested in gamergate, but the gamergate gamers were a very loud and toxic minority. that’s often who is being talked about when you say gamer, not the average person who plays games.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
a subset of people are pieces of shit. Lots of people are gamers. Grandmas are gamers. Grandpas are gamers. School teachers are gamers. Doctors are gamers. CEOs call themselves gamers too.
Steve@communick.news 9 hours ago
A majority of people are gamers now.
The subset of people who are like this, are a small minority; Both among gamers and the general population.Gamergate included a small fraction of one gaming type, at best.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
See: Survivorship Bias
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Yup.
I have family that supports all the awful shit going on in my country right now (US). They tell me it’s just politics, and that I’m wrong to stop talking to them.
The gamers I play with all openly talk about how wrong Trump and his administration is. We used to try to be apolitical, but the second term opened the flood gates. It is no longer moral to not talk about everything going on.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Gamer since 1982 (both D&D box set and Apple ][)… fuck these manbaby chuds.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 hours ago
Yeah, i am a gamer i don’t give a fuck about what the right is trying to push regarding identity politics or “the woke left”. Even as a long time gamer i believe that love has nothing to do with gender or specific body parts, it all comes down to personal preference and the freedom to choose what you are looking for. don’t just pin this on the gamers please.
wizblizz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There are plenty of gamers who do and are especially toxic. Your post reads like a ‘not all men’. There’s nothing wrong with targeting a vocal subset, it doesn’t invalidate any other group.
Steve@communick.news 9 hours ago
All inclusive statements like this are in fact lazy and stupid. Using them automaticly make you wrong, and makes you vulnerable to equally stupid retorts like not all men. They are unforced errors in public discourse.
If you want to target a vocal subset, that’s great! Do that, not this.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
cardboardcruncher6400@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
“”“Normal”“” people logic: The infinity symbol next to everything
Surely that’s truly normal and 100% reality and definitely the most popular opinion with average people IRL :)
raspirate@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I play video games, but my “identity” as a “gamer” is not important enough to me to care about defending the label.
If someone says “gamers are trash,” you either know exactly the type of person they’re talking about, or you are the type of person they’re taking about.
I have no desire to argue “well I’m a gamer and I’m not like those people” because I don’t give a damn about the “sanctity” of such an arbitrary label. Also, not only are there tons of toxic gamers who are guilty of all the -isms, but there are also a lot of gamers who are all-to-eager to minimize the shitty actions of the former group and I don’t want to be associated with them either.
“That’s just how online gaming is” or “You think that’s bad? You should’ve seen call of duty lobbies back in the day” are common refrains from people who may not be hyper-toxic themselves, but they’re completely adjusted to bigotry being the status quo for the hobby and they don’t even see it as a problem to be corrected.
Also, I’m white. Seeing people criticize racism in gamer culture and jumping to the defense of the label as if that’s the problem feels very on brand for the way that white people tend to prioritize things. The bigotry is a much bigger problem than my “right” to call myself a gamer without the extra baggage. It feels a bit like still trying to defend twitter. I play video games, but yes, gamers are trash.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s not just games anymore. Hence all the chuds losing their minds about “The Odyssey”.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 1 hour ago
And Star Wars, House of the Dragon, Marvel, Pixar, etc.
Compared to games the people the meme is referencing is much more prevalent for the TV show and movie medium.
Famko@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I think the funniest part about the Odyssey conservative backlash is that Ben Shapiro of all people actually liked the movie because it “has clear conservative messaging with the law of Xenia”
He also for some reason thinks that Xenia is a biblical addition to the film by the director. Not sure how he ended up with that conclusion.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
He also for some reason thinks that Xenia is a biblical addition to the film by the director. Not sure how he ended up with that conclusion.
Dear liberals,
You claim that you’re not sure how he ended up with that conclusion, yet you’re fully aware of what a media illiterate moron he is.
Curious.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 9 hours ago
How can it be a Greek epic? They didn’t cast the most famous Greek hero of all!? Where’s Kevin Sorbo?! DISAPPOINTED
nullify3112@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
There is nothing like republican Xenia:
- bathing guests in tear gas
- gifts of insults and oppression
- exchanging gifts such as children to appease the gods
- lodging guests in jail
- safe escort to their next ICE prison camp destination
- it’s considered rude to ask who the guests are before they have finished the meal offered to them. We don’t know who’s in the camps.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
It’s never been just games, it predates videogames
LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I feel like there’s a lot of white dudes in here that are like “what do you mean? I’ve found it so easy to avoid the toxic minority of chuds. Must be a you-problem? If anything, YOU’RE discriminating against ME by bringing this up.”
Murse@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
GamerRight wingernullspace@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s not gamer logic, it’s Gamer™ logic.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Gamer as in GamerGate.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
playing Dark Souls 3
EVERY time a female character, npc, or even artwork appears
without fail
message on the ground
woman therefore beating to a pulp required ahead
200+ likes
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I was expecting a spot with “souls”, and a message joking about periods.
Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Got beat up in rocket league or something?
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
ITT: G*mers trying to pull the “I’m one of the good ones” card
lemmysmash@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Do you realize that you’re currently doing precisely what you’re trying to mock? — Discriminating and generalizing a group of people based on their hobby.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
G*mers aren’t people.
AlteE@programming.dev 7 hours ago
It is a very offensive and exaggerated meme for the gaming community, by the way.
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
i don’t want colored folks in my historically accurate game about dragons and wizards!!!
joyjoy@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Don’t forget the two religions: Protestant and Political. We get the Straight White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Or SWASP
UnCollaredCarrot@piefed.zip 10 hours ago
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mrmisses@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The brick breaks the glass and window frame but then the frame is repaired when he flies through it.
UnCollaredCarrot@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
know i want to now if the original scene in batman beyond also has this error or it’s just the edit
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
GAMERS RISE UP!! 😎😎
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
The only way to make a game with brown people or queer people in it is to have made it more than 10 years ago. New thing = woke. Old thing = not woke.
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Thats right. Startrek is def not woke.
reader@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Is this about chess?
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yep, it is political because the queen is better than the king.
reader@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
and white goes first
AgentBigCactus@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I just want a fun game like KOTOR
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Wat
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Sound off if you’re a gamer from the majority of the world where whites are a minority of the population <3
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
what are you even talking about, europe and north america are very progressive compared to most of the rest of the world
Object@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know, but as a grammar MAGA pedant with ADHD this picture gave me cancer 🤮
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Yeah, because clearly the problem here is the grammar.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Everything is about politics but the game is to ignore it even as it stares you right in the face.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Found one!
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
O o o oh no i don’t talk about politics.
/s
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s conservative logic, not gamer logic. Some rather loud and obvious conservatives happen to be gamers. I know plenty of games that are extremely progressive.