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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a sad and increasingly tiny world that these freeze-gamer chuds live in.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can always go back to playing Mario....sorry that includes refrences to taking drugs altering your player state (mushrooms) and evil witchcraft (herbs granting power).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who has the time to do this for 1,427 games?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bitter 15 year old chanlords and/or bitter 50something divorce dad chanlords. stupidpol solidarity grillman

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 freeze-gamer yells-at-cloud

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 he-laughed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

FFS the protagonist of Donut County is a WOC these fucknuts can’t even stay consistent with their bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Alex Jones: NWO Wars

I looked it up and it costs $17.76 on steam. One of the screeshots shows that the game has an Epstein's Island level.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Imagine how deeply unhappy one must be to continually mark down (as a negative) each and every game that has even options of inclusion to it. grill-broke

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe there's a trans reading of Deus Ex I'm not aware of that is greater than societal acceptance of body modification/choosing one's physical characteristics but if not this is pretty funny:

"Contains subtly pro-Transhumanism content" like uhh that's the whole game and is not the same thing

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What is their beef with transhumanism? Are they altering The Lord's flesh? Might as well call tatoos woke.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Alex jones used to talk a lot about how transhumanism is bad and from the devil so i assume i it's something to do with that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a bit that I missed. Maybe it is legitimately a bodily purity thing. That's still funny though because it means they're seething over my killer mantis arms in Cyberpunk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Golira Arms gang susie-nudge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if you alter your body in any way God won't be able to reconstitute you for the rapture because He's easily confused I guess

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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. yud-rational

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Has trans in the name

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Iirc in the Deus Ex society theres no more Racism and Sexism, instead people hate transhumanists. For some reason they decided to focus on that in HR and the sequels. I believe some chuds/Gamers hate Deus Ex HR because they didn't follow the original Deus Ex and Invisible War's thing about being about Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies, Aliens and Hacker stuff. They probably think these games were about how epic JC Denton defeats The Jews™ or something like that. When in reality is more like a goofy 2000's RPG game with some unfinished stuff that has some real life stuff mixed with popculture stuff. The game seems like a mix of American leftist anarchism with libertarism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Team Fortress 2 | Recommended | Contains no Hippie content.

hold on, let me go check the tumbler tags for TF2

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Portal | Recommended | Contains no Hippie content.

ok, sure whatever

Portal 2 | Informational | Contains subtly anti-patriarchy messaging. All male characters are portrayed negatively and as less competent than the female characters.

scary dommy mommy GLaDOS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

These people have literally zero media literacy. If the subtext isn't directly in the text (and even then they still have even odds to miss it) then they will whiff on it get mad over some arbitrary woman or black person numbers within the game rather than what characters within the game actually do.

I'm pretty sure Doom 2016 won't be on the list because fun dumb shooty game, when it's got an obviously anti-capitalist message right there, with evil billionaire turns himself into a robot while getting the planet hooked on hell energy so earth doesn't go without it's treats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Silly, Aperture getting those sweet sweet military contracts is just world-building.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fake Gamer, Demoman is political!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

So is Pyro, I think.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Heavy social commentary regarding communism. Whether pro or anti is unclear.

Behold, American media literacy!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

whether pro or anti is unclear

Brother don't post your L like that

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ctrl+F

no minecraft

no warcraft

no starcraft

no genshin

no honkai

no nekopara

Filthy. Fucking. Casuals.

Anyways, pretty grim outlook for anyone who gets mad at even the bare minimum gestures towards DEI in AAA video games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They didn't include honkai because the demographic this list is made for is already teeming with honkies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

The Factual and Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This is a bit. This has to be a bit. No. I refuse to believe this is real. I will lose my fucking mind. (He is fully offended by the sight of a Strong Nord Woman, Lady Olfina Gray-Mane, whom you can't marry unfortunately).

True. Now get in the Gender Swap Coffin. You can't be allowed to change your gender even in a fucking completely fictional and fantasy universe like the one of Dark Souls. This is the level of transphobic fanaticism they're in lol.

"Subtle pro-transhumanist messaging" falls very short lmao. The best colonists in Rimworld are literally those who have bionic eyes, arms, legs, and are almost always high on combat-enhancing drugs and so on. Yeah, subtle my ass lol. Also it does not mention cannibalism, slavery or organ harvesting (to which you can organize entire cults and colonies around of), I guess these things are cool and good for the turbochristian non wokes and much less important than uh.. they/thems and bisexuals lmao.

Dude is literally saying colonialism is good.

I'm calling it now. When STALKER 2 releases they'll add it to the list as a woke game because it has at least one confirmed black character (They will say there are no blacks in Ukraine) and it'll probably contain a few women stalkers too (there are no women in any of the STALKER games thus far for reasons unknown)

Awesome list tbh, let them not enjoy anything ever, let them live a life of anger and insecurity. It helps us in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I'm calling it now. When STALKER 2 releases they'll add it to the list as a woke game because it has at least one confirmed black character (They will say there are no blacks in Ukraine) and it'll probably contain a few women stalkers too (there are no women in any of the STALKER games thus far for reasons unknown)

freeze-gamer will fucking lose it even more than usual if that dubious tradition is broken and a feeeeeemale shows up in a STALKER game. The mods that they'd conjure up to punish her existence... well... awooga hypersus jbp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If there's a massive boycott of Rimworld due to making it on the chud loser spreadsheet manifesto, my sides will exit the solar system.

"Who knew the anti-feminists would turn on me, a Supreme Gentleman?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm calling it now. When STALKER 2 releases they'll add it to the list as a woke game because it has at least one confirmed black character (They will say there are no blacks in Ukraine) and it'll probably contain a few women stalkers too (there are no women in any of the STALKER games thus far for reasons unknown)

Same goes for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Purble Place isn't on the list, chat is it woke?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Makes you identify with assembly line workers, WOKE

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Holy shit what a dork ass losers

"An NPC in Whiterun asks you whether the sight of a strong Nord woman offends you"
"Contains subtly pro-climate action messaging" - they wrote this about FFVII, the game which starts by you blowing up the reactor. I have to ask, if that is subtle, what they would consider radical pro-climate action?
"fight off a wave of nazis"

And so on and on and on

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I support this spreadsheet as a means of encouraging chuds to self-isolate themselves from treats and general culture until they realise how unhinged their ideology is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Phew, glad my Alex Jones video game is safe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

good news everybody