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

• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  disappearing of some femininity aspects

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

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  • telllos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As I said, most of the points made in the video I didn’t think about before, and I find it interesting to know other reasons why people play old games or are patient gamers, that’s why I shared it here. I think the person is simply expressing her taste, maybe it’s traditional stereotypes for some people, but you can’t decide of your tastes, I didn’t find it hateful. Now people who defend trans people found this video offensive, which I was miles away from expecting, and many people decided to jump on this wagon and decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video. Also as I said other places, I am not knowledgeable in trans defense, so maybe it’s possible they are correct.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If I would be any less vague, it would be like “when Luke found out he kissed his sister shortly before facing his father for the final time”

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    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Kingdom Hearts would be one, FF9 another one, I think you could count NieR automata as well

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