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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

There is something incredibly perverse and funny seeing the pronounjak crowd appropriate left-wing activist language and slogans and applying them to their culture war talking point du jour

spoilerIf you have don't have any clue what this word salad is, Sweet Baby inc is some video game story consultancy firm that gamers have decided is reaponsible for making every character gay, trans and ugly. Someone started a curated Steam collection for games they've worked on so freeze-gamers can boycott them

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

really cool how they're like full on judeobolshevik cultural marxist conspiracy theorists, but mostly just about toys for children

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Satanic Jewish pedophiles are making the underage girls in my games less sexy!!!

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

the groomers are taking away my loli porn

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

Oh this guy is a straightup nazi theres not even any pretense on his part

Imagine being too reactionary for the warhammer community lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gee back in my day the mark of the beast was a barcode on your forehead and now it's when a video game has a woman without makeup?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It makes no sense. The Mark of the Beast is supposed to be a Bad thing that Satan or the Antichrist or whomever forces people to take on

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They don't even know what biblical prophecy they're yelling about

They just learned it from the weirdos who yelled at them about it and the people they learned it from didn't know what the fuck they were talking about either

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

16 And he [the anti-christ] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The "mark of the beast" isn't a pentagram, which is a pagan symbol villainized by Christians that has no biblical backing. The mark of the beast is the number 666 placed on everyone's right hand or forehead - and everyone has to do it or they get cut out of society and exiled.

So the chuds here are taking on the role of the anti-christ if they are forcing the mark onto other subjects, and they are trying to "exile" the "woke" elements in the industry (women, trans people, queer people, non-white people) through shaming them. They much better fit the beast in this metaphor than any woke people do.

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

if they are applying the mark of the beast to games, that makes them the anti-christ/beast in this metaphor lmao. Not sure if they thought that one through.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

44k Views

I know that's not a lot these days, but that's disgusting for what this slop is. G*mers belong in a gulag gamer-gulag

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

44K literal children.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is just the 1980s Satanic Panic again...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

a classic Gamergate Moment was when notorious anti-video game culture warrior and disbarred lawyer Jack Thompson came out against Anita Sarkeesian and they immediately ate it up. Ridiculous people.

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

Maaan remember when Jack Thompson was the bad guy cuz he wanted to ban GTA San Andreas over the hot coffee thing or whatever?

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

Yes! The internet has altered the phenomenon a little, though. Today's panics have the nationwide presence, but no longer hold as much space in the national consciousness. So, instead of everyone being aware that there's An Outrage over jazz or Elvis Presley or D&D or heavy metal or 'satanic' preschools or M rated games, it's just pockets of people - smattered across the anglosphere, yet networked together - who are deeply outraged. Everyone who isn't immediately the target is kinda oblivious.

There's your perennial capital-gee :freeze-gamer: outrage, a near inexhaustible eddy of consumerist vitriol with nearly no understanding of the labor or processes that go into production (thank god for Stephanie Sterling, doing the lord's work). There's also a running effort to ban books from [and/or] outright dismantle the public library system. Mostly driven by older crowd, disseminated through facebook groups and preacher pulpits. Whole lotta transphobia and homophobia there, plus the usual pear-clutching over sex-ed. A few months back there was a "zombie outbreak" style panic over a test of the national alert system. Just a decade ago, that was the kind of thing you'd hear jokes about on the radio. Today, you have to be either in the panic or actively spectating it to even hear about it.

I'm sure there's more i'm just not aware of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

But these 4chan/gamer types are just so incoherent. They're all terminally hentai-brained perverts who crave and love all kinds of filth, like most of their outrage is specifically about video game ladies not being sexy enough for them to jack off to, but then also parrot this Pat Robertson-style conservative Christian pearl clutching culture war shit

Like which one is it, pick a fucking lane

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

¿Por qué no ambos?

They're conservative Christians (and "atheists" who've never reexamined their own protestant assumptions), angry that it's not socially acceptable to treat women as things and even more angry that the popular escapist toys don't pander to their desire to treat women as things in fictional spaces.

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

It's just funny that the people who campaigned against Dungeons & Dragons, heavy metal, horror movies and pornography AND the nerds who liked those things are now in the same camp politically

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

What makes this extremely bizarre is that you can guarantee that 99% of these people grew up playing violent video games, watched family guy or South Park or horror and action movies when they weren’t allowed, and probably browse the gore and violence and crudeness of 4chan or related sites and accounts.

They’ve simultaneously become more fascist while also artificially disliking the shit they once enjoyed, not out of maturity or natural disinterest, but because the unironic AVGNs on YouTube told them it’s not traditional family values. Dudes who are 35, at best, pretending to be mature old men. It’s not different than a child who sits at the adult table and pretend to be sophisticated by nodding his head along with the adults. But none of them are adults, they’re all the same age or younger

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

Arch is still around?

Thought he got cancelled. Guess it doesn't work

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

Was he more of a general gaming Youtuber before making a hard right pivot at some point

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He was a prominent Warhammer 40k personality. He was always right wing of the gamergate variety. But essentially his views got him in trouble with Games Workshop because his original name was "Arch Warhammer" and GW said that he wasn't allowed to use that name because they don't want to be associated with him.

Then there was something really funny that happened. He had a subreddit r/archwarhammer but it somehow got infiltrated by people from r/sigmarxism, and the commie mod purged the regular users and converted the sub from a place to discuss Arch Warhammer into a place to discuss literal arches in the WH40k universe lol

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

stalin-approval I'm glad this clown got clowned on

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

Yeah, there was like a year or two long campaign by r/sigmarxism to get this guy deplatformed which got to the point that even mentioning his name on multiple Warhammer 40k subreddits was a bannable offense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Sweet Baby Inc sounds like some coded CP/human trafficking group which is fitting because their audience becomes suicidally depressed whenever Japan remasters a game and DECREASES (not eliminate) the perversion towards underage characters