1924-2024

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
    133·
    2 years ago

    Remember when “Gamegate” was still a protofascist reactionary movement recruiting boys to both victims of grifting and alienation, and victimizers of others?

    • mildlyusedbrain@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was admittedly more conservative days, but even then I was always really confused about how it wasn’t a dog whistle.

      Don’t even remember the affair or whatever shit that initiated it but once I heard 'ethics in gaming journalism’s I didn’t know what the fuck anyone was talking about

  • GhostEye@lemmy.l0l.cityEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is why he got mummified, you know to really stick it to hard working fork lift drivers trying to make ends meet

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Fun Lenin fact: he actually got mummified because of the worldwide King Tut craze that was going on at the time as the result of the discovery of his tomb. Even Pravda ran frequent articles about it, and after Lenin died in 1924 the Soviets cashed in on it and mummified him - in a remarkable amateurish fashion, since nobody had been mummified in Russia for centuries prior.

  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    640·
    2 years ago

    Love how people think gamers hate female main characters but those same people get mad at gamers liking characters like Lara Croft.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 years ago

      I’ve literally never seen someone get mad because a regressive liked a diverse PC. It’s always people upset that there are diverse PCs to begin with, lashing out at people celebrating representation.

        • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          To be fair, most male characters have equally unrealistic looks. They’ve got more muscle in their necks than I got in my calf and can take gunshots to the face and lose 5 hp. Not that objectification and sexualization of women in games are not real issues though.

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          51·
          2 years ago

          I remember when Final Fantasy 7 was coming out, they actually made charts showing the reduction in boob size for Tifa Lockhart, and then blamed it on woke

          Just one of many examples

    • BalabakGuy@lemmy.ml
      412·
      2 years ago

      It’s cognitive dissonance. Getting angry over game with female protagonist is just a loud minority anyways.