Comment on Skill issue

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  this literally has nothing to do with the game itself. it’s about behavior towards other people, which is intently political.

  also video games are art which makes them political as well.

  the fact that you kneejerked into this reaction feels super insecure and reactionary.

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  • JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    More like I’m just sick of people hijacking my favorite art form to express political/social issues or sexual fetishes, both of which are becoming too common. It’s exactly why I’ve grown more and more in favor of retro gaming, back neither of those expressions were anything but a fringe group of miserable individuals and weirdos that most gamers ignored. Not going to argue further, I’ve spoken my piece.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge.”

      Alternatively, “That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”

      Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it’s been able to be expressed.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “a man who hates an animal” made me laugh so hard

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      • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Tetris is about trying to fit into a society, that wants to destroy you.

        Space invader is about uniting all of earth’s peoples against a common challenge.

        Pong is about the heated but honest exchange of ideas that makes a democracy stronger.

        (/jk I agree with you)

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m glad, because you’re talking nonsense.

      what you’re referring to is a time when you were a kid and didn’t realize the politics. now you’re aware of it and are acting like it’s new. this is just illiteracy.

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      • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ugh. Thank you, I was just about to say it myself. There’s been politics in games for forever. Even the simplest shit like, “environmental destruction bad, so Sonic fight Eggman”

        People are just too dumb to realize that they were kids back then…

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• treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Only two genders: male and political.

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• silverlose@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Trying to avoid politics are we? Got some bad news for ya…

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