• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        They targeted gamers.

        Gamers.

        We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

        We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

        We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

        Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

        Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

        These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

        Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

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        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

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    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

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    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

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        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.

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

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        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

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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          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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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      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?”

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      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

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    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

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    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.