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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

I fucking wish my life was so easy that this is all I had to complain about

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps people who need to build pillow forts to protect themselves from seeing those different to them shouldn't on the net at all if it triggers them thay much. I'm just saiyan

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

These people just wanna be able to jerk off while playing video games and not feel bad about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

They don't just want infinite pandering slop. They want anything that doesn't pander to them to cease to exist. Anyone else enjoying anything else is perceived as a threat. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Can't even jerk off anymore because too many of these games have women

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

The funny part is that porn games and porn mods actually exist, which makes their complaints even dumber. It's like me going to a food truck and complaining that my favorite food is no longer on the poster (but still is on the menu)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I have a hard time believing any of these people would ever play porn games. They jerk off to the role playing as much as the sexy pixels.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

removing anything controversial

but but but apparently all these things are controversial. and you want them to be softened or watered down, or! or! removed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

softening, watering down, and removing anything controversial

After that litany of complaints makes this feel like parody.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's only controversial it involves murderfucking or other hog slop vectors. Controversy is cool. Wokeness isn't controversial except in a way that makes hogs squeal with distress because something they don't like was added to the slop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

where is nv softend? it's hard politics

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

One of the weirder ones to me is "making female characters ugly", because that one is pretty much always about them giving a female character a lean, athletic build that has been the golden standard for beauty for as long as anyone on Earth has been alive. All of them are of course weird and creepy in that gamer way, but that one is where they are just angry that there are too many polygons.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

a lean, athletic build that has been the golden standard for beauty for as long as anyone on Earth has been alive

Not consistently true, not even within living human lifetimes.

https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It's practically never been the gold standard. Lean athletic women came into fashion in the 80s, then gave away to emaciated waffs in the 90s, and finally buxom anime-shaped cuddle pillows in the '00s.

Before that, the All-Natural Woman of the 70s, the white lady dressed ethnically in the 60s, and the domesticated house servant of the 50s were the trends.

The idea that women should be allowed to do athletics was woke, soy, and leftist right up until the Jazzercise phase of Reagan consumerism swept the nation.

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

Fair enough, but let me change that to "a lean, athletic build that is currently the gold standard for beauty". The closest thing to an eternal beauty standard we have is probably to look healthy, and the designs they complain about do tend to look healthy whereas the old designs they pine for would look like an actual medical emergency if modeled with today's detail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The closest thing to an eternal beauty standard we have is probably to look healthy

What is considered "healthy looking" has also changed several times within living memory alone. Not gonna be rude here, but you're arguing in line with ideologies that try to explain cultural beauty standards away with a superficial and flawed understanding of evolutionary biology that just doesn't hold up when you look at how differently idealized human bodies have been portrayed throughout human history and across different cultures. In many cases, signifiers of beauty where the same as signifiers of wealth and status, and that often included features that can be considered infirm or sicklish (see feet binding in imperial China, before the communists outlawed the practice). Looking healthy often means looking capable of work, and feudalist cultures in particular have frequently glorified to look as if you've never had to work a day in your life because the peasants toil for you in the fields (see also: pale skin in monarchist Europe, something that only fell out of fashion once tans started to mean long beach vacations). And that biologist foundation needs to be pointed out because reactionaries do the same thing all the time, particularly when it comes to their misogynist, racist, heteronormative and transphobic beauty standards. Like, you can literally find similar logic in Jordan Peterson rants, he just does this to fatshame women. Naive biologisms like that are dangerous. It lies at the core of current and historical fascisms to make their agenda against various marginalized populations appear "just natural" and grounded in common sense when they're wholly constructed.

To tie this back to your example, that particular ideal of what women should look like that these people get so incredibly bothered about is that of a culture disciplining women with workout routines and demanding not only beauty, but performance from us. It is the aesthetic expression of girlboss feminism, where you prove your worth as a functional unit of late stage capitalism by getting up an hour earlier for your morning exercise routine. Of course they do not reject that aesthetic because it is pressured on people and loaded up with the expectation to conform to it, or because it expresses a capitalist zeitgeist, but simply because they are treat fiends who spend their entire free time in front of a screen. Which means that fit women who exhibit a high degree of self control and discipline scare them. They demand weak women because of their deeply rooted insecurities and their crushing need to control their partner, and they feel emasculated by a woman who shows the physical signifiers of having adapted to late-stage capitalism and its rise and shine hustlegrind culture. This, ofc, goes doubly when that woman looks as if she could beat them in a fight, and when she shows up in the wish fulfillment treats that are the only thing keeping the hogs alive and pacified, all hell breaks loose.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

See, this is how you own someone with facts and logic. I'm not gonna argue to have my posts removed in case anyone else can learn something from this, but after reading this reply I tried to repeat my arguments in my head in a Jordan Peterson voice and that whole thing about beauty standards being a sign of health fit way too well for comfort with his grating rambling. I am truly sorry about that and I hope I can trust you to throw me into a jet engine if I am concealing a gamer bite and slowly turning into one of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I'm glad this worked well. I don't often have the patience to explain things like this in detail, it often turns out to be dismissed anyway and that's frustrating. It's good when we can have a good faith discussion in a place like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Historical accuracy is when the feeemales are all contemporary-standard awooga waifu spankbait targets.

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

WE'RE AT DEFCON NOMUSCLES

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

"minorities" is a female profile and an afro.

hitler-detector

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bro just admit you're sexist, racist, and know nothing about history or politics, fucking hell lmao i-cant Literally you have whole categories that are just like "women being human" and "black people existing"

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

There response is literally "no because my entire world is built form the ground up with the goal of me not having to acknowledge that"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No they can't admit it that's part of the game. To play the game you have to dress up your reaction in "respectability" so you talk out the side of your mouth in code words and coded language so you can be racist and sexist while still being accepted into polite society.

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

I hate how no one is allowed to enjoy anything anymore because of these assholes.

I also hate it because it distracts from the actual real problems the industry is going though (capitalist enshittification)

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

Yup quality of games have fallen off a fucki g cliff in every way except I clcus8on but guess what Gamers biggest issue is nowadays.

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

Yeah they identify that games are getting worse but redirect it to the usual scapegoats of fascism, women, minorities, lgbtq+ the jews.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

removing anything controversial

One of the major faction you can join are Rome larping slavers who crucify people in conquered territory...

That's off the top of my head and I'm not the biggest New Vegas enjoyer, but I bet there is much more "controversial" stuff in that game

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a confusing image but New Vegas is crossed out, so I read it as criticism of the newer Fallout games for not letting you larp as a roman nazi.

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

Fallout games for not letting you larp as a roman nazi.

That's not the brotherhood of steel in fallout 4?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The F4 Brotherhood are more feudal europe nazis imo.

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

Couldn't remember if any of their power armor had the roman look

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

removing anything controversial

They want to remove anything wokely controversial.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That one has me stractching my head. All the others are typical frothingfash stuff over just having women and/or POC in games. No clue what they are talking about with New Vegas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

They're just angry at any game that's popular. That's the only common denominator here. "Other people shouldn't be allowed to like things".

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Alert from the Pentagon today: Threat level for a woke dei shitstorm has been elevated to red. Stay alert patriots.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

You couldn't make counterstrike today, that would let terrorists win (tm)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The changing historical events to push current messages as per BF V is just having one women on your never built prototype nazi gyrocopter that flies away from the historically accurate fortnite firewall innit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Aren't there like automatic rifle carbines in the World War I Battlefield game? A thing not invented until late WW2? Then there's all the weapon skins like having neon purple tiger camo. "Historically accurate" my ass.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Every single player in bf1 has a secret prototype that 12 copies were ever made and they never saw combat.

Because otherwise it would be lines of people 100 meters apart taking pot shots with single shot rifles whenever somebody poked their head over a trench.

But obviously the inclusion of women and black people were the problem.

They were compalaining because they included a person with an early prosthetic because that technology wasn't available yet, while using guns with more more advanced technology.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

That actually bothered me to death, I thought we were gonna be running around with G98s and Mosins and Enfields popping at eachother from five and ten round boltguns, but they did dig deep for any excuse to just do the same automatic-rifle shit from their other games.

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

Then there's all the weapon skins like having neon purple tiger camo.

Obviously, DLC paid upgrades don't count

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Is it woke to replace a male character with a female character if the feeeemale is sexier?

Is it woke to remove masculinity from a masculine feeeemale?

Are hot crossdressing furries controversial or are they woke?

This graphic leaves a lot unanswered

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