A cyberpunk 2077 video I found where the guy just goes full reactionary against minorities at the end. gamers are not good people
At least most people are dunking on him in the comments
What the fuck did I just watch? His pinned comment is one of the stupidest takes I have ever read.
Yeah, he’s got gamer brain rot and he fucking sucks
There's a link to his discord. We should raid.
Yes, BLM is fake punk because they bow down to the system and rob small independent businesses, I am quite the intellectual
that video was annoying af, i kept try to zoom out to see the whole goddamn thing before i realized that's how they made it on purpose
Is there a way to post a mirror of this? I just realized I don’t want this dipshit to get views
adding farside.link before a video automatically gives a random invidious/piped mirror link to spread the network load around servers so one doesn’t get hammered, but sometimes need to use it a couple times to find a good one
either: https://farside.link/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0m7x6M6Cfc
only invidious frontends: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=r0m7x6M6Cfc
only piped frontends: https://farside.link/piped/watch?v=r0m7x6M6Cfc
It's strange to me how gamers are viewed as a homogenous group. If e.g. a tennis player misbehaves on court, it's the individual. While with gamers, it's always the group as s whole . I for one, don't want to be bunched up with other people, just because we share a hobby.
I feel like
doesn’t mean everyone who plays video games, it’s the people that making “gaming” their personality. Not, I am someone who enjoys video games, I am a gamer. It’s that type that treats media consumption as identity that tend to be horrible people.consuming media...fills the belly
If the hobby develops its own subculture that poorly socialized children and manchildren base their entire identity around, and that subculture is incredibly reactionary and overall lame, then it is fair to shit on it.
Also even if gamers weren't reactionary people are still going to judge you for making consuming entertainment a hobby. Nobody considers watching TV a hobby, or scrolling tiktoks, or jerking off.
If shitting on gamers genuinely bothers you need to touch grass. Log off. Go outside.
Pretty much everyone in the developed world under 30 plays videos games a fair amount these days. Gamer doesn't really refer to anyone who plays video games, or even plays a lot of video games, or are somewhat passionate about the medium, but people who build a whole culture and identity around video games. And that culture is sadly really fucking cringe due to a number of reasons, the primary culprit I suspect being that the whole gamer sub culture really grew out of the shittiest parts of the early internet and was actively encouraged and courted by the games industry.
Gamer is a signifier for multiple concepts, one of which is simply "anyone who enjoys gaming as a hobby" but a more specific one is roughly "a demographic in the Western anglosphere, ages 14-35, largely male, being marketed to by gaming corporations and the military, who see themselves as a 'class' associated with their gaming identity, and participate in that culture". The usage of the term in reference to the latter, or something like it, has been common for over a decade now, which we can see with early gatekeeping of the term (supposedly fake gamers, a judgement especially targeted at women), as well as both ironic and unironic identification as a "gaming" class (they targeted gamers and gamers rise up and gamers are the most oppressed demographic etc).
So the essence we're trying to invoke with this signifier is the people who strongly identify as gamers, who were caught up in gamergate with all the vitriol and misogyny that came out of it. Gamer an adopted consumer identity rather than an inherent or socially-enforced identity, so if it doesn't describe you then you don't have to identify with it.
Most people play games, but only a subsection of those are obsessed with wokeness and rage at the thought of non-white or cishet representation in video games. But that subsection is the most active in consuming games, or at least particularly vocally represented in secondary media.
this is just one guy. gamers are neutral.
Oh no a poor kulak is getting robbed!
I mean bits aside yeah, robbing some guy selling tacos from a cart isn't really revolutionary even if that guy is technically petite bourgeois but clearly is just a side-wind to bitch about BLM.