The article is satire but damn if it isn’t hard to tell if it’s real or not sometimes.
Gamers this, gamers that - just tired of culture wars. Let’s focus on things that matter instead.
Oh look, something a minority of gamers actually do – let’s attribute it to a wide swath of people.
…It’s just prejudice in a different suit.
People here doing the same tribalistic bullshit that they complain about others doing to them; with not a HINT of self-reflection.
Sure, I’m sick of culture wars too, but the right is using culture wars to get people to vote for them so they can enact all their regressive policies on the “stuff that matters”.
Also we should laugh at people who really act like this about games because they fucking deserve it.
No one changes their behaviour by getting shamed about it. It only encourages them further. This is why you have Trump again in the US and why Reform UK is gaining popularity. Please take a moment to reflect and consider how we can build bridges. If things don’t get better, we’ll argue ourselves into the bottom of the most bottomless poverty as our bills soar and salaries freeze.
I won’t build bridges with people who genuinely want to strip women and minorities of their basic human rights. That’s beyond culture wars and is moving into dehumanization. For the people in those communities those are “things that matter”. They can’t worry about frozen salaries or bills if they aren’t allowed to get proper healthcare or even exist. Maybe I’m part of the problem but I think you need to draw a line in the sand on certain issues.
I will build bridges with people who wake up and realize that it’s not Left vs Right but Ultra Rich vs Everyone else. Problem is a lot of people just refuse to see it that way because of so many reasons.
In the end this is a shitpost community and my post isn’t meant to do anything more than get a quick chuckle from a satire article.
But this is gamingcirclejerk. This is THE outlet for this type of thing. I’ve clicked on “Don’t recommend channel” on Youtube countless times and the videos still pop up, just because I’m interested in the occasional gaming news. The bitter Youtube comments are everywhere. This is one of the few places that allows you to vent from the “anti-woke”.
Honestly every time I open Facebook some sponsored bullshit pops up with a bunch of incels bitching about a game being woke. Like I don’t care about video games, I don’t care about Steve Bannons bitchmade online whining gang, I don’t care about “woke” media or whatever. Why does Facebook try to force feed it to me? I’m not interested. So I just use lemmy now.
Yeah but my anger and frustration comes from the algorithm trying to show me shit that I have zero interest in. It’s just annoying as shit watching these morons argue with each other over a new video game having too many or not enough gay characters. Who the fuck cares?
Steve Bannon and his ilk care. For every one of you and I that don’t click on the video there’s any number of people who do click on it and get radicalized further. Thats the whole point of “gamer” outrage online. To try and feed impressionable people right wing propaganda and push them further right. We dunk on it a lot in this community but it’s a real fucking problem.
Delete your Facebook, delete your Twitter, stop using Instagram. Get 2 of your friends to do the same. Starve the beast.
You know, advertisers treat these ad recommendation algorithms like the second coming, but they sure seem like junk to me too. Same with family members that don’t bother with any privacy/tracking settings.
…Feels like a bubble waiting to pop. Like maybe all these hyper targeted ads are not as profitable as they’re cracked up to be.
Just a bunch NPCs controlled by Putin.
Ai shit but “battles lingerie” got me
I’m the opposite… I kind of have a thing for tough women in armor or “practical” clothes. Does that make me even weirder?
See GOTG game Gamora:
VS her little strips of leather and long hair in the movie. Like, is she supposed to fight in that?:
Though even game Gamora is a little too skin-tight boob/butt armor, kinda like Mass Effect armor.
I think some of my favorite “female warrior” getups are in LoK, like Korra’s athletic, baggy-pants tribal getup or Asami’s huge pockets for tools and weapons. But especially the Beifongs:
Bonus points for Su’s makeshift armor, literally just a cabinet door she slapped on in battle:
I’m suddenly realizing that metal benders could have levitated/flown like Magneto if they had thought of it.
I dunno. Lots of details suggests bending, especially earthbending, follows Newton’s Third Law of Motion to some extent. Like when toph and aang use an earth slab as an elevator, they are “grabbing” onto the earth wall, or when zuko’s bending failure blows him back. There’s a lot of it in Bitter Work in particular.
Even Zaheer ostensibly obeyed physics by just blowing air around him.
What I’m saying is that bending a metal suit doesn’t let you fly without something else to push against… but maybe a good sandbender could take flight in a sandstorm?
