Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games

drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Agreed with your reasons, but she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations. I wanted to share a point of view that I think is rarely shared in gaming communities.
  I don’t follow YouTube drama much, so I don’t know who Asmongold is.

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

    These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

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    • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty prejudiced take. Like in the literal sense of the word.

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      • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you may have a a specific experience that makes this very common for you. I personally don’t interact with those subjects much, so I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing your view.

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      • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    disappearing of some femininity aspects

    Can you describe some of those aspects that have been disappearing?

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    • telllos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reminds me that time gamer discovered girls have body hair because of Aloy.

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      • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        She as a woman of course also has no idea what femininity is and that women have body hair.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it’s better to check the source by yourself since it appears to be more sensitive than I expected.

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      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Idk, it’s sounds like you agreed with this point and I’m curious what your opinion was about it.

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    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t watch the video and probably never will, simply because I’ve watched too many and I hate that topic so much I spend the time I used to watch YouTube now on playing games.

      I have played a particular western made game for the first time and finished it about a week ago. Without spoilering the massive thing that happens, I try to be as generic as possible: I have not played a single western made game in the last 5 years where the hero physically saves a girl, only to be saved by her emotionally.

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      • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think that was too vague. Also, I’m not real clear if that’s good or bad.

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      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m trying to think of any game I played that was like that. You have some examples (western or not, old or not) on your mind?

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man I don’t even care about any of that, personally.

  I don’t buy modern games because of the cornucopia of shady bullshit they keep throwing at gamers. Invasive DRM, anti-cheat, 3rd party launchers, account linking, changing the ToU after the fact, releasing completely broken games, pop-up ads for DLC and MTX in game, etc. etc.

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• Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

  They’re fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues vid-budget video game production.

  Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer ship’s captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There’s a place for this, but done often enough and across so many genres, it becomes self-satirizing.

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