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Why so unnecessary? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ironically, most of the people I hear engaged in gamergate/anti gamergate noise don't actually play games. Maybe they did back in school, but now they'd rather listen to some podcast or like twitter posts for whatever team they chose.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's funny, in my bubble I've only heard references to gamergate recently from game developers in podcasts. I wouldn't imagine non-gamers know what it is these days.

    Huh, I did a quick search and interestingly, there are a couple mainstream news articles referencing gamergate re: recent anti-DEI in games. Lol I guess games really are part of mainstream culture now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Steve Bannon basically used gamergate as a fascist breeding ground, and a model for our modern political discourse.

    I'm not even kidding. Just because you weren't aware of it, doesn't make it unimportant.

    Edit: sources:

    https://qz.com/901761/donald-trump-and-steve-bannon-are-using-gamergate-culture-to-attract-angry-white-men

    https://www.axios.com/2022/10/20/gamergate-right-online-harassment-joan-donovan-meme-wars

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The people I know are nerds, but don't play video games. They play ttrpgs or use to play video games and read comics. I brought up how EFAP seems to have a one sided feud with RLM to a friend of mine and he got really defensive of EFAP. This was a little longer ago, but when Battlefield included female models for the player, it caused a bit of a stupid uproar online that the ttrpg friends mocked. I think BF is a bad franchise, so I only commented that they should also include a bear option for the USSR. This was a reference to Woktek, not the more recent meme.

    I got tired of hanging out with both groups who were more interested in complaining about shit then talking about what they do enjoy and stopped reaching out to them.

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