• RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I’m really developing a violent reaction to the “video games are escapism” line.

    Like, that’s all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?

    Also, knifecat escape from what, exactly? bridget-pride-stay-mad

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Customer base has a lot of trans people

    Developers recognize that and throw in an easter egg.

    “YO WTF how can this be happening? I DEMAND THE ARTISTS PRAISE MY BELOVED HITLER!”

    YouDoNotFitInHereComic.png

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    The whole argument that video games must be complete escapism has been twisting my brain in knots.

    Like there’s a lot there to be analyzed. The need for “escapism” over just playing a game because its fun is a scary turn.

    These dorks are annoying, yes, but holy shit are they okay? Like there’s so many threads I want to tug on but I’m afraid to. Like why do they need to escape? Why can escapism only be right wing? Where does this start, when they’re kids or when they’re older and disaffected? where in the video game culture is this idea presented and supported?

    Even the basis that “games are escapism”, means one is playing games in a way someone does drugs. A comfort, an escape, the inability to address issues in ones own life.

    I’m not remotely qualified to analyze any of this but it just feels really dark and foreboding overall.

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Literally half of all players on TF2 are LGBT. I’ve been playing TF2 about 20 hours in the last 2 weeks and I have YET to see a non-trans medic.

    They all have Mediguns labeled “Estrogen Dispenser” or other such trans references.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    “Keep politics out of games” and the whole “escapism” line are nonsensical the more you think about it.

    Video games are not an “escape from reality” into something completely new and different, they will always be reinterpretations of our current reality because that’s all we know and all we can create. Reinterpretations that display how we believe the world works, how we feel about the world and what we would like it to be. Any piece of art involving any kind of society will therefore always be political, because you can’t write a society without displaying how you believe societies work and/or how they should work.

      • Oh would you look at that, this gulag is actually just a pit! This is the problem with bureaucracy…

        Shove AAAAAAAAAAAYOUGUYSARETHEREALNAZIIIIIIS!!!

        You can’t just not follow through on the order without a mountain of paperwork, and filling a notice that this is a pit and not a gulag will take the better part of a year to go through the correct channels!

        thud

        I hear you comrade, it feels like the gamer rehabilitation agency doesn’t care sometimes.

        • trot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          9 months ago

          quit job as gulag supervisor to become pit supervisor

          first day on the job, go down to the pit

          it’s a gulag