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Live, Laugh, Lenin (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe he would say that! I am literally shaking rn

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

I'm never buying a game from him again.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

I always thought it was Karl "Cultural" Marx who said this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember when "Gamegate" was still a protofascist reactionary movement recruiting boys to both victims of grifting and alienation, and victimizers of others?

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

I was admittedly more conservative days, but even then I was always really confused about how it wasn't a dog whistle.

Don't even remember the affair or whatever shit that initiated it but once I heard 'ethics in gaming journalism's I didn't know what the fuck anyone was talking about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

goes for movies too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is why he got mummified, you know to really stick it to hard working fork lift drivers trying to make ends meet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fun Lenin fact: he actually got mummified because of the worldwide King Tut craze that was going on at the time as the result of the discovery of his tomb. Even Pravda ran frequent articles about it, and after Lenin died in 1924 the Soviets cashed in on it and mummified him - in a remarkable amateurish fashion, since nobody had been mummified in Russia for centuries prior.

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

Bwah I would totally rock a Live, Laugh, Lenin wine glass holder.

[+] [email protected] -35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Love how people think gamers hate female main characters but those same people get mad at gamers liking characters like Lara Croft.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've literally never seen someone get mad because a regressive liked a diverse PC. It's always people upset that there are diverse PCs to begin with, lashing out at people celebrating representation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure if it's what they're referencing, but regressives get yelled at for liking female characters all the time: when they're objectifying them.

Like with Lara Croft, "hey, give her big tits and short shorts back!1" gets pretty obvious pushback almost every time it's seriously stated. It's not like she's ever been portayed as remotely ugly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, most male characters have equally unrealistic looks. They've got more muscle in their necks than I got in my calf and can take gunshots to the face and lose 5 hp. Not that objectification and sexualization of women in games are not real issues though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean, they're both issues in the same way: society has an unhealthy relationship with power fantasy. They don't think it's fiction in that who is portrayed is unrealistic, only in what is portrayed. As in, since it's a real actor, people think it's actually attainable for most, and judge others as if they're merely lazy for not being an action hero.

It happens more fiercly for women since they're aesthetically judged more, but it's the same thing. The main problem is the judgements from normalization and lazy thought. It's not inherently bad to be pretty or strong or sexy, but it is bad to judge others for not being so.

The same thing happens with power and authority itself. People objectify and seek power for the very aesthetic, or for power's sake itself, instead of using it as the dangerous tool it is. (although due to the nature of power, it is always negative to someone, usually those on the recieving end)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I remember when Final Fantasy 7 was coming out, they actually made charts showing the reduction in boob size for Tifa Lockhart, and then blamed it on woke

Just one of many examples

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Guys, come look at my straw man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Welcome to the entirety of PoliticalMemes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Who the fuck are those people you imagined?