I hate the right-wing nerd outrage slop industrial complex

I've been seeing a bunch of videos in my feed about how IGN is REFUSING to review the Lollipop Chainsaw remaster because they HATE Juliet Starling for being too SEXY

I got curious and tried to see if IGN had actually officially come out and declared they would not review Lollipop Chainsaw Repop because they had no problem reviewing the original in 2012. Nope, they had in fact been covering the remaster ever since it had been announced, though there is no review as of now at least.

All the other results in my Google search were predictably outrage slop videos and links to posts on the Asmongold

and Critical Drinker

subreddits. I clicked on one of the posts and among the hivemind of the most room temperature IQ chud redditors you can imagine abuzz about how horrible and woke IGN was being was one lone commenter asking if IGN had actually officially stated they would not review the game.

A guy responded that while it can't be proven IGN hasn't reviewed the game yet because they object to its content, it's probably the most likely reason

I fucking hate all of these people, the cynical right-wing agitators making up shit for views and the stupid gamer morons who lap it up because of vibes

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They're all extremely miserable people. In the time they complain about problems they made up I've completed a few stellar indie titles.
I will always be winning they will always be losing
- That's why I like retro games sometimes. The only people talking about some obscure game I got running on a Windows 3.1 emulator on top of DOSBOX are other oldies like me that are like "hell yeah that game was fun."
  The outrage pornographers are such miserable creatures, slouching from one rant to the next on a never ending journey of being unhappy about a hobby. like take up whittling or something, goddamn.
  
  That's why I like retro games sometimes.
  fuck yes, i love retro games since there's no hype cycle to affect my thoughts, and they come on discs or carts so i can hold them, and my poor little PSX whines every time it spins the CD (also it hates burned games lol for some reason, despite my buying it from the retro games shop with a modchip in it that they "found accidentally")
  
  The game I've been playing the most lately is Flicky for the Genesis lol. I cant get enough of it and its endless so.
  
  They’ve become everything they mocked tumblr for: angry, holier-than-thou Karens addicted to their own feelings of moral superiority…and proud of all of it!
- Yeah but even when a game they should like gets released they're not fucking happy about it unless they can imagine a scenario where someone with they/them pronouns shakes their fist in impotent rage at the thought of these guys having fun
  
  didnt they cry about the jiggle physics being toned down already?
  edit: yes, yes they did, no i will not link. it's not worth it
The capital G Gamers problem is that they want their medium to be viewed as respectable art, which I don't even object to, I think games are art, but at the same time, they want all and every coverage, ever, to be product review akin to a car. It is simoultaneously high respectable art and a commodity to be used up - see here also the weird dollars per hour fun calculation that I've never seen with books or movies despite those being expensive.
- Hot (fake) take: dollar per hour of fun calculations were invented to make it clear what a good deal Kerbal Space Program 1 is.
  
  Where do you draw the line at finishing KSP?
- “I can’t believe they made Zelda a girl!”
  ...do... do they think link is zelda? or they're pissed about the femboy-fication of link?
- Sometimes a new take hits and its so infuriatingly bad I feel the need to share it. I avoid the stuff thats just the same old shit GamingCircleJerk recycles but sometimes there's some freshly bad new take lol.
It's the same formula for all chud slop
- They didn't exploited the Concord disaster enough imo. How is that none of them blamed DEIs and woke developers to its failure is beyond my comprehension.
  
  Isn't that like the only thing they complained about with Concord
The fact that this is what they're mad at really shows how few real problems they must have
- I want to agree with that, and honestly it's probably true. but I used to know this guy. we both played video games maybe 20 years ago, but moved apart, lost touch etc.
  I only hear scattered things about his situation which, honestly, sounds like a total clusterfuck deluxe. almost all of it self inflicted naturally, but a shit show of epic proportions.
  anyway, he complains about video games being too woke too. and buys like those $80 AAA games still, despite not being able to afford them. of course I want to be, "dude you need to stop worrying about this dumb shit and get your life right" but I never really talk to him directly anymore.
  anyway, that said, I think there's a demographic of these "anti-woke" types that have an unhealthy boundary with the escapist aspect of games, and they obsess over shit like this to distract them from their real life problems.
  
  It's everywhere. People getting weirdly obsessed over some form of consumption. It's also movie buffs, obscure music fans and record collectors, cosplay, trains, fucking Funko Pops...
  And all of it boils down to people getting very angry over a product. It's not enough to enjoy the treats, everyone else must enjoy the treats YOUR way and you gotta have ALL the treats, the rarest treats, etc. to be the super special person. I swear this shit is messing up our brains the way lead messed with boomers...
who gives a shit about Lollipop Chainsaw anyway? It's like one of the most mid games ever made
- Shadows of the Damned is the superior mid Suda game from the 2010s
  
  I think Suda fans were just happy to have the game available again, though with the port apparently being shit you're probably better off emulating
Asmongold
every time i have to see his face in a yt search i want to cry
- i went on a banning spree a while back, there's like 8 different channels that post clips, like what did this fucker ever even do? play wow badly?
  
  what did this fucker ever even do?
  i wonder this every day, how do these people get so popular
- You don't have a channel blocker? I use BlockTube and sponsor block on top of normal ad blockers. It really cuts down on all the chud shit.
  
  i do, i just found the option in freetube a week ago, but sometimes i use the website out of laziness and well thats where i see them

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