They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

Half of the games on the part of the “Recommended” list I could be bothered to look at has stuff that would absolutely be considered WOKE by the same people if it had been released more recently, so this is definitely

Like, Donut County is a game with an explicitly progressive, anti-capitalist message, it’s impossible to miss even to the average gamer but it’s still recommended somehow.

Good news for based gamers though, they still get to play redpilled gems like “Alex Jones: NWO Wars” and the entire Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish franchise, apparently

When you’re too manly to pick flowers, even when fireballs are on the line, because that would be touching balls with your finger, and that’s gay

My thought was they were mixing up being transgender with being transhuman. Like they were intrinsically linking the two. Which like I can see some takeaways there, but Human Revolution is 100% an obvious racism allegory that gives you cybersunglasses. I don’t personally remember it having much to say about gender.

yeah… I think conservatives see transhumanism as a liberal or globalist conspiracy that undermines religion, I’d assume libertarians are positive about it though

The entire LessWrong cult is obsessed with living forever with superpowers but is also terrified of the idea of gender norms being blurred away into meaninglessness, that sort of thing.

They want a 1950s white suburb, forever.

Has trans in the name

The game seems like a mix of American leftist anarchism with libertarism.

lol, ever played Liberal crime squad? I think it’s been abandonware for many years now, but was originally coded by the dwarf fortress lads.

Do they think anti-capitalism isn’t woke or are they this oblivious to satire?

I saw a drawing of medic putting his fingers in scouts mouth, so yeah, I think politics may be happening

So is Pyro, I think.