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    I really don’t think so man. Sarkeasian was on to something when they said the media we consume shapes us and having lived the media zeitgeist of the early 2000’s I can tell you we lived in a factory for making entitled little shitheads. There’s a reason why they got so roided up at her specifically and it’s because she read the industry for filth

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      Meanwhile, Im just trying to earn bells so my little duck guy can have a fancy new bridge in animal crossing.

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        Animal Crossing is pretty nontoxic. Also it just wasn’t in the cultural zeitgeist at all during the G4 guygaming era and that’s probably related.

        But I dunno. Nobody has exactly been SWATted, doxxed, or gotten bomb threats over the skin tone of Tom Nook so maybe that’s a bad example?

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          Its a bad example of “reading the industry for filth” because the entirety of the industry isn’t filth.

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            The industry made a certain kind of thing financially successful and culturally dominant. I’m sorry you feel like that’s a moral judgment on you, it doesn’t change what happened

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              I guess this series of comments goes to show how little you know of the gaming industry and its cultural impact.

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                Die mad about it? Maybe channel that wound into joining a guy militia or something. That’s where a lot of those guys went

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                  This conversation went from “haha duck guy” to “youre a huge chud who wants to end democracy” real fuckin fast lmao.

                  The only person in this conversation who’s going to “die mad about it” is likely to be you. What a weirdo.

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                    All I did was hold up a mirror and suggest the therapy that people turned to for the assault against video games that mean internet women perpetrated. Chud rofllmao came out of your mouth not mine 🫂 I was always with you big guy, I stand by victims

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      You gotta split that up.

      Sarkeesian was specifically trying to rile the rightwing chuds up. I applaud her for making that awful segment of gamers visible, so we all could see what was hidden there, but at the same time you have to acknowledge that there were a lot of gamers - i would even say a majority - that weren’t part of this shitstorm.

      I never was against Sarkeesian, even tho she wasn’t really speaking for me, but she made a part of gamer culture visible that was at that time hiding beneath the surface. Gaming society at large also made clear that they don’t want that kind of conduct to be the standard. It took a while, but if you filter out the loud minority that rages against everything they decide is woke, you can see that most gamers don’t want to be associated with this hateful crap.

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        That’s a new take to me. Literally not trying to sealion here, but I actually want to know how that has come about. That would make me reconsider some things.

        She wasn’t really speaking to me either, I played games that had the tropes she was talking about but it really didn’t change how I feel about them. I thought she was looking at the nature of writing, not games themselves. Or even if it was, just kind of an insane thing to go to Breitbart and Maga over

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          Seeing people have sincere discussion on important and contentious topics makes me really happy. I’m curious to see how yalls discussion goes ☺️

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            I was hoping so. I think mimic may have blocked me after seeing how ugly the thread with the other guy got. I may have to just look into that possibility they mentioned myself