• GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      Ah gamergate, the day that the gaming community has officially been gentrified by the normies who smugly wrote off actual gamers as nerdy losers for decades before.

      Please gatekeep your hobbies before grillman steals it from you, then kicks you out of your own hobby after claiming himself to be the standing authority on it.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    408 months ago

    The Lotus Eaters

    THE LOTUS EATERS ARE A NONE TOO SUBTLE METAPHOR ON THE PERILS OF ESCAPISM

    HOW DO YOU MISS THAT SO FUCKING BADLY?

    • @[email protected]
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      248 months ago

      What, the peril of giving up early on a bunch of dangerous adventures fighting monsters and pissing off powerful beings to go do opiates and/or eat pussy?

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        148 months ago

        It’s like those obnoxious assholes back in the day that called themselves “Elitist Jerks” as a badge of honor when being freeze-gamer

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    338 months ago

    ESCAPISM IS DEAD WHEN THE WAIFU DOESNT NYAAAAH FOR SENPAI EXACTLY LIKE THE LAST 8435 TIMES wojak-nooo

  • nightshade [they/them]
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    318 months ago

    I gotta say, comparing their desire to mindlessly consume without ever having to see anything that doesn’t cater to them to the situation of the lotus eaters is pretty funny. What happened to being free-thinking intellectuals who aren’t afraid of hurt feelings?

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    308 months ago

    I was just glancing at some anime pfp dweebs channel and was trying to figure out whether the creator or the people who watch their slop are more depressing.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      Why would anyone give a shit about a FNAF movie? Like I’m faintly aware the dev is some form of christian-chud dipshit but aside from “rich chud gets richer” what am I supposed to be mad about?

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        78 months ago

        Nostalgia baited newly adults and teenagers are upset because they’re unable to enjoy a dumb movie they like without validation from people they hate. Every single kids movie, especially the video game adaptations, will have angry people who think the critics don’t understand the modern Scorsese

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      178 months ago

      Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has woke Hollywood critics FREAKING out!

      It’s getting bad reviews because it’s a shit video game adaptation movie?

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      108 months ago

      THE FNAF VIDEO LMAO

      These people have deluded themselves, or simply pandering to the fans, that every dog ass video game movie is actually good now. So good that the Elders of Rotten Tomatoes are conspiring to ruin its reputation even though the website and movie are owned by the same company.

  • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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    278 months ago

    Every piece of media has characters in it. Those characters are going to have traits like race and sexuality and physical characteristics that you may or may not find attractive. The only way this could possibly be considered propaganda is if you thought there was some kind of default human and portrayals of literally anyone else was…

    Oh. Nevermind. I guess I answered my own question

  • queermunist she/her
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    Escapism is dead because the commodities are providing escapism to other people. It’s all supposed to be for me!

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    Your hobbies are for propaganda

    I wish normies a very go back to watching sportsball. Sorry a story made you think, I know that was a tough experience for you.

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    28 months ago

    Alan Wake 2 came out recently and all the Gamers are shitting themselves to death about one of the protagonists being a black woman and the game being exclusive to the Epic store (because Epic paid for the game’s production).

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      That’s funny because you have the choice to not play this or any other game. You also have the choice to go make your own game if you don’t like how someone else has made theirs. You have a lot of choices. You can choose if you want to look at this picture of a pig shitting on it’s balls or not. I bet you’ll look PIGPOOPBALLS

    • Venus [she/her]
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      238 months ago

      I personally think games should be open and give the player the ability to choose their own alignments.

      You want a button to say the n word? I literally don’t know what the fuck you’re saying here, what the fuck is an “alignment”

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        The game is undeniably fun to play, but many games tend to have agendas behind them, even if these aren’t necessarily negative ones. In terms of Sony, the company isn’t particularly known for its moral stance, and they choose to include content based on what is popular or mainstream at any given time. If the N-word were mainstream, it’d probably be included in the game.

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          but many games tend to have agendas behind them, even if these aren’t necessarily negative ones.

          Even whining about “agendas” is an agenda. Your agenda. Demanding that things somehow not have an “agenda” as you see it is just whining for a status quo that is so numbingly comfortable that you don’t notice it in your bubble world.

          If the N-word were mainstream, it’d probably be included in the game.

          Whiny “nonpolitical no agenda just give me choice” nerds like you trying very hard not to think of something racist for more than 5 minutes:

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          118 months ago

          Wow. You just discovered what capitalism is. Congratulations. I know you people always recommend “basic economics” to leftists but I’m glad you finally had the time to read about it.

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      I think it has an agenda, even if it isn’t a terrible agenda, it is still an agenda. I won’t tell anyone how to write their own novels, but I personally think novels should be open and give the reader the ability to choose their own alignments. We have that capability and I think it would make novels better, but writers don’t wanna do that. That’s why novels are better than other types of media: choice.

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          you clearly have the media literacy of a brick wall, and i don’t plan to educate you on the thought-terminating disinterest of reducing video games to narrative choice. like are you fucking daft, or are you too much of STEMlord to actually understand how narrative works? in short, i don’t care about your nonsense assertions, you are like this pig shitting on its testicles PIGPOOPBALLS

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      198 months ago

      What the fuck are you talking about you fucking dork

      Are you mad that there’s a rainbow flag in the game or some shit

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      i want to inject your noggin with the knowledge and work required to make even a shitty jam game and watch it pop like an egg in a microwave

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      I think it has an agenda, even if it isn’t a terrible agenda, it is still an agenda.

      Even whining about “agendas” is an agenda. Your agenda. Demanding that things somehow not have an “agenda” as you see it is just whining for a status quo that is so numbingly comfortable that you don’t notice it in your bubble world.

      but I personally think games should be open and give the player the ability to choose their own alignments. We have that capability and I think it would make games better, but studios don’t wanna do that

      I know where this goes. Your type tend to want to do some grimdark murderfucking in, say, a Spider-Man game and want that to be recognized and rewarded because you’re the most special Main Character.

      No. Fuck you. Just write some one-handed edgy prompts in AI Dungeon. I hear premium’s pretty cheap these days.

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      It’s Spiderman…he has an established alignment. I don’t know what you are on about.

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      Why does ever game need to be some open world RPG bullshit? Why can’t you have a fixed story and a character with a fixed set of choices and beliefs? And even then, game devs will cater to you nerds with MUH CHOICES!!! You people are just upset that they nudge to you to a certain direction and that’s there’s obviously a “correct choice.” Just fucking go against it if you care so much holy shit. If you end up a shitty villain, you probably deserve it, but so what?

      If you want unlimited choices go play a TTRPG

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        98 months ago

        “If you want unlimited choices go play a TTRPG”

        That might require friends and the ability to be tolerable for a few hours

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      38 months ago

      We really need more games where you can choose the nazi alignment, it would make games better but the studios don’t wanna do that