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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People that worry about "woke" are unironically the exact same as their caricature of "SJW leftists" they where whinging about a decade ago. They literally can't handle even the slightest deviation from their G*mer chud worldview.

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

Content Warning: Appears

Normal person: Cool, thanks for the heads up. Even if I can handle it, I'm glad to know what to expect. Just one button press and it's game start.

gamer-gulag: [Barely coherent screeching filled with terminally online culture war jargon and slurs]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Do NOT go back and play survival horror games from the 90's, WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Back in the day something like this just ramped up the tension. Like "hell yeah that's what I'm here for brother pbrstalin-gun-2" Reactionaries have noone to blame but themselves for ruining it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember first seeing the blood in mortal kombat as a kid and thinking I was going to go to hell or something, lmao, later on as a tween I got down with RE and loved the licker taking your head off at low health.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nintendo removed the blood and Sega tried to censor it by putting it behind a code! What is this WOKE bullshit for SNOWFLAKES? 😡rage-cry They couldn't handle playing SF2 in the arcade.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

saya no uta is woke now because of the content warning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I went into Saya no Uta thinking it was going to be a fun lovectaftian time and instead I was exposed to a new type of pedophilia

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Resident Evil is SATANIC and pushing a PC agenda" - Christofash soccer mom from the 90s if they were G*mers from today

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

If the soccer mom was a true G*mer she'd be upset at a black guy being on the stars team and TWO of the members being women. WOKE PC PROPAGANDA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It’s funny when you realize that RE is partially meant as a Japanese homage to American horror+action movies and the first (non-cutscene) death is Kenneth, a black guy. So it would just be holding up a mirror to our own cultural atmosphere at the time.

I’m sure if the cultural warriors lived back then, they would have manufactured a story about how Capcom making a black supporting character who doesn’t instantly die in RE2 (Marvin) was because they were worried about offending the wokes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gamers have just become soccer moms it's ridiculous.

They suck off Japanese games now but the instant Murdoch says otherwise, they'll be calling to ban them because they contain "unamerican" messages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

they'll be calling to ban them because they contain "unamerican" messages.

Chuds don't like Japanese media or foreign media in general. They used to hate video games, comics and so on. Most of the time they just pretend to like it, so they can try to convert younger, nostalgic 30-somethings to their side.

That's not to say that there have always been reactionaries within these groups, but they weren't as open and there weren't as many of them before Gamergate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really do want to point out to a lot of normies that if they got the fourth reich they so desired, the SS would come for them too.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's so funny seeing nerds dickriding conservatives when they see these childless single men playing with children's toys and watching cartoons as worthless d*generates who should be sent to die in a war

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Japan has FALLEN to WOKE rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Many a 12 year old when they first played RE and saw this scene: Why didn’t I listen scared

frothingfash: See? The Woke virus has taken over the youth!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

The modern incarnation of "why should I have to press 1 for English? grill-broke"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Wtf? The original call of duty modern warfare games had content warnings when first booting up the game, that allowed you to skip whole missions and cutscenes (like no Russian) without affecting campaign progress, because of the graphic violence. And this is the crowd that goes "you wouldn't survive an MW2 lobby", while ignoring that the game literally had a content warning lol. Content warnings have been in mainstream game for over a decade at this point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

You know, Tomb Raider has always been about a strong woman who don't need no man. Sure back in the day the ads for it were really cringey and awooga, but I think it was pretty much inevitable that chuds would end up rejecting the series as time has gone on - give them more and Metroid will get the same treatment, if it hasn't already.

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

Funnily enough, they had been seemingly loving this rerelease because it has the old school hot pants-wearing Lara whom KOTAKU PROBABLY WANTS TO CLASSIFY AS A HATE SYMBOL frothingfash

FUCK I'M GETTING SO MAD JUST IMAGINING IT AAAAAGGGHHH

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They got super pissed off over the leak about Lara possibly being a lesbian in the next game and I'm like bru she's always been.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm like bru she's always been.

Not really though. In the first five PS1 games there was no romance aside from some mildly flirtatious banter she had with some of the male characters. I believe Angel of Darkness gave her a generic early 2000s dude as a love interest but that plotline didn't get developed because the game bombed hard. I played the middle trilogy but I honestly can't remember if she had one (or several) blandly handsome love interest(s) in some of them but it wouldn't surprise me.

I know people ship reboot Lara with her friend from the 2013 game where the main goal was to save her from the island cult. I don't recall getting any particularly gay vibes from that game though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The comic series from the 2013 game leaned in hard to the Sam/Lara ship to the point of apparently a script being written and a cover drawn for a story getting them together but iirc the game company told them to scrap it. The writer occasionally talks about it

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

shrug-outta-hecks the vibes I always got off Lara, Classic Lara, were different.

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

I think the only female characters besides Lara in those games were the secret Atlantean CEO villain of the first game and the random witch CEO boss from the London levels from the third game. Why were they both evil businesswomen with magical powers thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why were they both evil businesswomen with magical powers

Because Core was pushing the agenda that small business owners who're actually Atlantian Gods in hiding are bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Perhaps there is a some kind of old money aristos versus new money upstarts thing going on there, but I guess being from Atlantis or being an ancient witch would make your money pretty old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There was a mild chud uproar about Metroid Dread. Samus isn't sexualized at all in that game, and I think they also got upset Samus was voiced by a Latina.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A content warning for the gruesome death scenes whenever you miss a jump or whatever?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

It's for racially/culturally insensitive portrayals of different groups, like certain indigenous peoples, as inherent to a series literally named "Tomb Raider".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Failing the river slide sequence over and over to own the woke

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's extra funny because (one of?) the new tomb raider trilogy games is rammed with anti-communism. not woke at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The gulag section in Rise of the Tomb Raider, it's just the most Solzhenitsyn brained shit I've seen outside of Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I quit partway through. That shit was so fucking bad. the devs literally think gulags are concentration camps but with snow. I did like using photo mode to take some nice shots of Lenin statues.

They mistranslated posters honoring the fallen of WW2 into Lenin propaganda to be scary or some shit. They also fuck up with Greek dialect big time. The whole this is just orientalist BS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There's one of those collectible mission things where you can track down Soviet flags and cut them down to let them fly away. The game doesn't say why you're doing this, but the implications is you're cleaning the area of some horrifying past. Also there's a journal entry somewhere that refers to the Soviets as colonizers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

ancaptain People who whine about content warnings

faith-car-jam Devil May Cry series using content warning as a literal hype-builder since the early 2000s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Literally the same shit they had before COPS aired in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They did the same shit when the Dead Space remake had it. I don't get why they take it so seriously. Like it flashes on the screen for a few seconds and its gone. Same with whining about pronouns. Make your character the CIS sigma male kracker that you want and just ignore everything else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

pronouns will he come back for a round two this time with content warnings?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please let this happen. New emoji material would be nicepronounjak-rage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just came across a video on the subject from the British pronoun guy while looking for videos on the game, but you couldn't pay me to watch it though. The thumbnail has the two random SJW ladies they have been using for 10 years

I was surprised to see him, you'd think becoming a laughing stock like that would make you want to live in witness protection for the rest of your days but I guess these guys have no concept of shame

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

it's dumb to be mad about it but for dead space i kinda wonder who it's for? like, the gratuitous snuff clips in tomb raider 2013 are out of nowhere but dead space is famous for being grisly so everyone should know what they're getting into before they even download the thing.

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

everyone should know what they're getting into before they even download the thing.

Especially since they advertised it the same way they advertised the original release - with a montage of the various grisly death animations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah "your mom hates this!" smh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I think that was Dead Space 2.

Dead Space and its remake had the Isaac dying various ways with "twinkle twinkle little star" thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

liberal trash

Bro doesn't even know what that means.

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

I hate gamers so fucking much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I swear, it feels like the bourgeoisie have more revolutionary potential to overthrow themselves than the working class ever will. I don't actually believe this, mind you, but look at my working class, dawg.

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