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Hate crusades in gamer "activism" ? What's actually happening? (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Gamer's traditionally have less political sophistication than a dead dog. Recent highly visible gamer moves have included review bombing Helldivers, screaming about not being able to see both labia t the same time in Stellar Blade, and whatever that Sweet Baby/DEI thing I haven't bothered to look at is. Idk what the scale of this roblox bs is, but i am interested in the phenomena of game rage campaigns where they get extremely self righteously mad over strange, often trivial shit and make it their entire life for a few days. Wtf is happening? Is this echoes of gamegate a decade later?

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[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As described, this sounds like whining that pure seniority and investment is trumped by actually being good at the game, truly idiotic to conflate with "communism" even in the already idiotic minds of the average gamer.

And also even dumber than that, this literally is objectively good for the players of the game, removing arbitrary time gating from higher reward tiers would give you more freedom as a player to try other things, or just play other games aside from this.