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Friendly reminder: Don't take the culture war in gaming too seriously. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some tweets from piratenation and asmon about the bald protag in intergalatic got, lets say 20k-40k likes on Twitter. Which is a lot for the platform. Lets say that it was 50K though, lets ignore how many of those are bots Let's ignore how many of those wouldn't be interested in the game anyway Let's ignore how many might follow them without even being gamers really but just bc they are part of the culture war BS let's ignore that even on twitter they got ratioed by a tweet that got 300K likes

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's all just straightforwardly true

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly it’s fun just taking right-wing language and redirecting it. Like literally one of my favorite things to do is just say “stunning and brave” any time a reactionary gloats about how he’s sooooo bad for essentially conforming to popular opinion.

Just call them “the real SJWs” if they’re the first to bring up identity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The old classic