There is something incredibly perverse and funny seeing the pronounjak crowd appropriate left-wing activist language and slogans and applying them to their culture war talking point du jour

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If you have don’t have any clue what this word salad is, Sweet Baby inc is some video game story consultancy firm that gamers have decided is reaponsible for making every character gay, trans and ugly. Someone started a curated Steam collection for games they’ve worked on so freeze-gamers can boycott them

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    7 months ago

    But these 4chan/gamer types are just so incoherent. They’re all terminally hentai-brained perverts who crave and love all kinds of filth, like most of their outrage is specifically about video game ladies not being sexy enough for them to jack off to, but then also parrot this Pat Robertson-style conservative Christian pearl clutching culture war shit

    Like which one is it, pick a fucking lane

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      7 months ago

      It’s what happens when a bunch of turbonerd reddit atheist types fall for the gamergate stuff and then fall in line behind the Ben Shapiros and Kermits of the world. People who pride themselves on being “free thinkers” but actually only want to feel smug and hate some imaginary enemy, which conservative Christianity is perfect for.

      So you get this weird thing where they pearl clutch like a conservative Christian about the “downfall of society” but still have all their edgy redditor ideas about women being sex objects. So they pearl clutch anytime they see a woman in fiction that isn’t like the ones in their hentai.

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      7 months ago

      ¿Por qué no ambos?

      They’re conservative Christians (and “atheists” who’ve never reexamined their own protestant assumptions), angry that it’s not socially acceptable to treat women as things and even more angry that the popular escapist toys don’t pander to their desire to treat women as things in fictional spaces.

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        7 months ago

        It’s just funny that the people who campaigned against Dungeons & Dragons, heavy metal, horror movies and pornography AND the nerds who liked those things are now in the same camp politically