this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
107 points (100.0% liked)

the_dunk_tank

15681 readers
225 users here now

It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this.

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (1 children)

black people worship

me, sitting down at the Black People Altar i was forced to install in my home due to woke and doing ten "white people ain't shit"s every morning and evening so They don't take away my dick

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I, a black person, attending church on sunday and standing behind the pastor while he speaks my praises to a congregation forced to worship me under armed surveillance

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The game, more inclusive, is sold and fails in sales

[Horizon Zero Dawn] won numerous awards and sold over 24.3 million units by April 2023, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games

Horizon Forbidden West received generally positive reviews from critics, and had sold over 8.4 million units by April 2023

lolwut

Also, the Israel flag and ”Jewish citizen” are extremely :sus: in this context.

Convervatism is the new punk rock, that's why we're complaining that new media promotes hedonism and Satanism just like Bible thumpers did in the 80s and 90s!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

Also, the Israel flag and ”Jewish citizen” are extremely in this context.

Antisemites gotta antisemite...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

The difference is 80’s and 90’s conservatives complained about any sexy images as being pornographic smut. The gamegate types only have an issue with hedonism when it’s someone else’s pleasure. Their pleasure, then they better get big booba waifu 24/7 or else it means they’re being oppressed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well you see those sales weren't real but were just fake sales done by the private corporation BlackRock whose investors are for some reason cool with this

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

whose investors are for some reason cool with this

morshupls Reactionaries explaining that corporations don't actually follow the profit motive, but are instead loss-leading to push an ideology.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's cool that sexism gives me CPTSD to the point where it hurts to even read this bullshit. And then I feel angry with myself for "letting it get to me"

I fucking hate these nerds, capital G gamers. All they do is take energy away from real issues and ruin gaming by turning it into edgelord shit.

No, you losers, games would not be better if they were all waifu porn.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I call them "Hard R Gamers"

I think it bites more and the innuendo makes more sense to people less familiar with their shitty little culture

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Thing is these types of people are losing, gaming has opened up into so many different niches and different types of communities. You have more small time indie devs via ich.io making games that are either very artistic in expression or done with the goal of showing the perspectives of different groups, Pagan Autogeny for one (pretty much a game metaphor for transitioning).

You even have wholesome games, which 'Gamers' despise, with he focus of unwinding and relaxing as well as even the major gaming industry realizing including more people into games means more money (yes trite capitalist shit) but hey it gets the ball rolling with having more than just angry depressed buzzcut white man as the protag (mid 2010s action protags anyone?).

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

she proceeds to add the company's contractor to blackrock's client portfolio

Literally what the fuck does this even mean. it's just a bunch of business-related words strung together in a way that makes no sense whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

This whole thing reads like it's written by an AI trained on the conspiracy reddit-logo

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At least they’re anti fossil fuel 🥴

Also, this probably needs a CW

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it's what stands out the most to me, anti fossil fuel but only because "woke games are pro oil"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

"woke games are pro oil"

I mean.. what with all the sodomy and all, lube is practically priceless...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is even dumber than the five guys burgers and fries shit that kicked off the OG gamergate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I’ve never heard that part of OG gamergate. What’s that?

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The game, more inclusive, is sold and fails* in sales

  • Please ignore the most popular games released in 2024

Social: Support and Promote Sodomy

Anti-Blowiob Akton!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I still refuse to believe this has any legs. Wake me up when grifters like Quartering make videos about it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

he's already made multiple

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for braving that cesspool to show this. Okay I am more believing now that this is a thing.

Still not gonna be anywhere near as big as OG Gamer Gate, because this one relies on people already having bought into anti woke propaganda. They don't have an in with normal people.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually it might. They're trying to give it an anti corporate spin which might resonate with normal people. The image i posted is very far on the deranged spectrum but others are being a bit more conservative with their messaging trying to say "rich corpos are ruining your media.... With woke"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, maybe, but they still lead with Woke in that messaging and it's basically indistinguishable from Ben Shapino saying the Barbie movie will fail, only for it to gross over a billion dollars. It's old hat and people already have an opinion about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

IDG why they went with "woke," they had winners with "Politically Correct," and "Identity politics." All kinds of normies bought into that

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Alloy is an objectively attractive character, i dont even understand this.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

Coombrained gamergaters are so porn addicted that their perception of what attractive human beings look like is warped to the point that if they aren't literal hentai characters they can't feel anything.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

Ooooh love the casual racism and antisemitism thrown in

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Last time I checked The Last of Us was so successful they notnonly remastered the 1st but put out a woke AF pro communist award winning HBO series.

The Last of Us franchise has sold 37 million copies in 9 years

HBO's The Last of Us wins eight Emmys, including outstanding guest actor for Nick Offerman's Bill - Strawberry fields, forever.

bridget-pride-stay-mad

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

vtuber gets a boyfriend

gamers screech john-agony

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Fellas, I can't believe girls in these woke games have hair on their skin, that's so gross and makes them basically men.

Sincerely,

Mr. Has Definitely Seen a Woman Up Close Before

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I will buy multiple copies of every game that promotes hatred of white people

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I can't believe these chuds still parrot this "Go woke, go broke" shit when it so verifiably isn't true. Apex Legends, Overwatch, League of Legends have all the minorities you could ever want in their games and they're still at the top of their genres. Apex has a trans woman voiced by an actual trans VA, to the point that they might actually be sincere about it and not just ticking off boxes. Cyberpunk and Baldur's Gate let you be gay and us-foreign-policy, they let you be a girl with a penis and everything too. They didn't go broke, did they?

It's so bizarre how they can ignore all this but then point to a single financial failure that has diversity and go "See, told ya! Go woke, go broke!"

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fuck it, I can't program for shit or do art but I'm totally making a hit indie game called "Kill All Gamers" and the gamers are all white

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Oh ffs at least leave the Japanese emojis that the artist lets people use for free out of your stupid hate filled bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

i don't think they've seen a woman in several decades

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I just starting seeing this shit on Youtube and have no idea wtf it's about, any good tldr on what this fever brained mirage is?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's a company, Sweet Baby Inc, that's a kind of narrative/design consulting firm for video games studios. Most of their consultancy is about better representing themes about race, women, queer people, that kind of stuff. They've apparently worked on some high profile stuff, like the Horizons games and Alan Wake 2.

Gamer nerds think this company is basically the Illuminati and is part of a global plot to make everyone gay or lower birthrates or something reactionary like that

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

In a sequel to the game they gave the female lead a wider face with a strong jaw for a woman. The little freaks are so sexist that this was not ok.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait wtf they're saying "ESG" policies are pro fossil fuel?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

there's an inverted pyramid of conservative intelligence. at the base top you've got your think tank fellows and your corporate lobbyists, people who can technically string a sentence together. as you head deeper, you meet the libertarians, the small business owners, the militia larpers, the Qanon and facebook boomers, and finally, at the very nadir are the geek fascists. these people would throw up if they had to read a book. their beliefs are incomprehensible and inconsistent because their only guiding principle is that of a howling infant demanding milky and blanky, and to that end they've adopted the most diseased talking points and catchphrases of everyone else in the pyramid.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Eloquently put. Did a site tagline just drop?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Dinosaurs were problematic, therefore it's punching up to use their liquified remains as fuel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

White people, heterosexuals, and cute women are akshually problematic to western governments/the zeitgeist

I wonder how someone can come to such funny little conclusions

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Jewish Citizen

Dude needs to get a better fitting mask if he wants to pull this bullshit off.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Critical support for the fbi and the forces of capitalism to crack down on g*mergate 2rs to keep Black Trans Indigenous Women Of Color in all video games in order to appease Satan or something.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

enmasculate

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

frothingfash Why bideo games don't make pp hard?????

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Chud culture is so exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

This is interesting because that concept art was never actually used in the first game, the characters face barely changes from the first game to the second but if you compare it to that art it’s a big change.

Also that concept art appears to show a 12 year old tops.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

They do know that video games are not real life, right?

anakin-padme-2

RIGHT?

anakin-padme-4

load more comments
view more: next ›