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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conservatives have a Madonna whore complex. They want their politics and movies to be traditional, modest, and respect “family values,” but then when they login to steam they want some big breasted femdom Japanese waifu who will giggle when you stare at her ass for too long.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think with reactionary nerds the dichotomy also comes the fact that in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s nerds saw themselves as "apolitical." They didn't want to hear or care about any politics, man, they were just simple dudes who wanted to play video games, watch anime and read comic books. They used to hate conservatives back when conservative groups and politicians were coming after video games, heavy metal, DnD and so on

Eventually in the 2010s the enemy shifted from Jack Thompson types to feminists as nerd media stopped being exclusively catered to horny 14-35 year old dudes, and during Gamergate conservatives managed to leverage that resentment to begin fully folding them into the conservative movement. They're adopting more and more conservative viewpoints which is replacing the vaguely ambivalently liberal. sorta libertarian ethos they used to have

So they want big titty waifus to jerk off to but they also wanna ban abortion and bring God back to schools

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's basically that American counter-culture has always had a strong chauvinist libertine current to it, for whom the ultimate sin is someone getting between them and their treats. And this doesn't just apply to libertarians, but was also a strong current in the broader American "left" (which was mostly center-right sucdems).

This leads to incoherent things like, say, Heavy Metal magazine being at once openly cynically exploitative and publishing a lot of extremely problematic trash, but also still being better than its contemporary mainstream on social issues. Or 4chan 20 years ago generally being left of the mainstream (like when I was in highschool, all the queer theater kids and general outcasts were avid 4chan users), even though it was chauvinist libertine trash then too. And you can take this back further to things like the hippy movement that was incoherent and mostly focused on young men not wanting to suffer and die for a stupid, evil reason and also those same young men wanting special good boy treats like drugs and music and free access to women's bodies, and while it may have intersected in places with the left and the civil rights movement that was entirely incidental and you had a lot of racism and sexism because it was still an American movement. Like the American mainstream social mores have been so extremely chauvinist and awful that even contrarian libertines just demanding treats ended up better politically than the geriatric demons running the show.

Then the lines were redrawn: the theocrats faded into the background momentarily and their fascist oligarch backers switched to trying to capture a new generation of libertines by telling them women and minorities were coming for their treats, leading all that self-serving latent bigotry to crystalize into their entire worldview and creating an army of frothing fascist treat lads. Conversely, the backlash against them also allowed an actual left to form because suddenly a big chunk of the chauvinist libertines who were sucking the life out of everything weren't just gone, they were a militant enemy that had to be opposed.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s a cyclical thing. Back in the 90’s it was the Howard Stern conservatives who thought the libs were coming for their cigarettes, high flow toilets and in-ground pools and ruin their vibe. The rugged individualism facade that American conservatism puts on is really good at convincing those types that conservatism is the party time ideology that wants to deregulate their treats. It continues until the cultural conservatives gain the upper hand and then they realize again, oh these people want to control others.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Like a perpetual game of peekaboo with a toddler that hasn't developed object permanence, every other decade or so centrists and liberals forget that conservatives are really just fascists in everything but name.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"women hate stellar blade"

women haven't heard of stellar blade. ps5 has no games

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This guy apparently believes your mom thinks about nothing BUT stellar blade

What's up with the overweight homemakers in these thumbnails??? Is this guy like 45 years old and still conceptualises the people trying to take his nerd shit away looking like members of conservative parents' groups protesting DnD in the 80s

At least the blue-haired SJW stereotype makes sense as a person that probably has opinions about gender representation in video games

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

You know how people watch shows about hoarders so they feel like their messy house isn’t so bad? I think it’s a similar thing, the neckbeards imagine these hypothetical feminists to be just a bit more morbidly obese and disgusting than them so they feel better about their own sad lives and bodies.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude is 45 but obsessive over the looks of girls that look 20 years his junior?

Sus

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

That's just me speculating based on his posting style

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What the fuck is Steller Blade?

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's some game where the player character is a lady with a big butt.

I was laughing at this drama farmers videos several months ago and kept seeing this pop up.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I looked the game up and the developer apparently did fire a female employee for retweeting a feminist hashtag on Twitter, which nerds like this have seemingly been jerking themselves raw over. Bad Korea is Bad

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's not even big it's just accentuated

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

True, but you wouldn't say this to ms. Blade's face.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Looks like a pretty generic game. Incels are so easily grifted lmao

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I hate the most about this bullshit is that it works. Now I've gone from not knowing anything about this PlayStation exclusive Nier: Automata knockoff to knowing about it and I can't go back.

Also every South Korean game dev is firing every female employee who's ever said anything in public at any point. It's part of that country's ongoing "gender war" which is like omega gamergate.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Korean conservatives trying to increase the birth rate by making every women stay away from them

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

would be amazing if that occupied korea womens' movement figured out their lives would be better in free korea and this shit leads to reunification

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hasn't the situation in Korea been described as a de facto strike anyway? Which is funny coming from a country that mostly doesn't allow striking.

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean by de facto strike? Like a widespread quiet quitting / slowdown situation?

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

De facto sex-strike / women's strike.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

I have no idea what chuds think about the games I play gigachad-hd

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly would hate this shit in games. Why would I want to feel horny in the middle of playing a video game? There's enough fat butts on my computer screen whenever I go on reddit/discord/any website with ads

I say "would" because I don't play games anymore

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Ublock origin

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i don't think people are getting aroused like that while playing a game that has an "attractive" character in it but isn't a porn game or doa volleyball. like, do you wonder why attractive people are cast in movies?

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

there's a difference between a generally attractive person and seeing two huge round bazoongas in your face at every second of the game

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

that sounds like porn game. even in something as background levels of horny as soul calibur that's not a reasonable description.

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You and I have been to diffrent parts of the internet. That is for sure a thing going on

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if you're referring to fanart and such that's usually not a "while playing the game" activity?

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I am not. My I have a buddy that is a "Gamer" capital G. He has moments where he is clearly suffering from cum poisoning. He has shown me terrible things. There are for sure men down farther bad than you can imagine.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that a cookie growing out of her cheek?

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

The gamer outrage cycle: receive game they supposedly want but still get mad at fictional people and also get mad at games being made they would never want to play.