So, the act man went into a segment on politics and video games, given this is contentious in recent years. I mostly agree with the video, my content is more just supplementary to this video, but yeah. I largely agree with the premise.
Look, no one is against all politics in video games. Politics discusses political themes. It makes political commentary, this is normal. What people resent is, as the act man said, people being preached at.
Here's the thing about SJWs, they're like fundie christians. THe fundies of the left. They have this ideology and they have to inject it into everything. And that's where the gaming community really hates this. Because ever since gamer gate, these guys have tried coming into OUR fandoms and tell them how to do things. They push DEI and crap into everything. Ever since 2016, it's been all social justice everything, it's been the zeitgeist of the past decade. And it pisses people off.
SJWs have always been antagonistic toward gamers. because gaming is dominated by white males and slightly right wing leaning. Not to say women and minorities cant enjoy games, but it's stereotypically a white male thing. And then you got these social justice people who come in and try to push their politics and say self righteous things like "it's not for you", only to watch those games crash and burn as few people buy them as they're making games for people who don't exist, and yeah.
Like, I know some people will say that gaming is 50-50 men/women, but in reality it varies a lot by genre. Yeah a lot of women like casual gaming. They play candy crush on their phones. They play the sims or something on their laptops. I know some girls had the nintendo wii back in the day and played that brand of casual games when I was in college.
At the same time, the amount of actual hardcore gamers is less. Take it from me, as someone who would only date that type of girl. Women who are actually GAMERS are rare. They exist, but they're a minority of the scene. And even then their preferences vary from men significantly. So...yeah.
But these social justice minded people try to push all of this inclusivity stuff leading to games that exist for people who don't exist. And then they fail. And it shouldnt be a surprise. Its like the female ghost busters 10 years ago no one liked. Or that velma show that had that black velma talking crap about everyone else. You know? Like those are the most egregious examples, but you get the idea.
And then the democrats wonder why they've lost men. Because quite frankly, they've been hostile to them. They've been hostile in gaming spaces because they come into their spaces and start lecturing them about how to do things. And it's just so blunt. Like really, it's blunt. Like, no one is against games being political. As the act man pointed out, even tetris is political. Fallout is political. Bioshock is political. halo is political. But, the difference is, the politics arises organically. Often times the politics is open ended enough to let people decide what direction they wanna go in. But with social justice politics, it's just THERE. It's injected into the games. It's in your face. It's lecturing people, as the act man pointed out. It doesnt feel organic, it feels shoehorned. You know what I mean?
Even worse when there's pushback, the SJWs get antagonistic. people reacted badly to, for example, the weird one armed lady in the trailer of BF5 asking "what should i tell my daughter?" Idk. That in the 1940s, men only served, but because of PROGRESS, you know, the good progress, now women serve?
No need to whitewash and tell an alternative history, unless youre being blunt about that. Ya know, like wolfenstein 2 or something. Like, you gotta do good world building here. And if it works it works. But you cant force it. These guys just wanna come into generally male dominated fandoms and tell them how to do things, and then they act shocked when the fandoms push back.
Now, all of this considered, should this be the burning issue that decides politics for you. Quite frankly, no. As a gamer, I'm more upset over the fact that "real life" forces you to spend so much time working just to survive when quite frankly many of us would rather spend that time gaming. Or doing anything else. We should be mad that life forces us to grind for gold just to survive when we no longer live in a world where it is as necessary as it used to be. To me, that's an infinitely bigger issue than some weirdo culture warriors trying to impose more minority representation in gaming in a shoehorned and inorganic way. And yeah, if you really care about politics, you should vote for candidate who wanna give you more time to game and more money in your pockets than dealing with this crap.
At the same time, do I understand why gamers, and young men in general are kinda pissed? Yeah. It's one of those issues I actually lean right on, because I never really liked SJWs either, and as they kept pushing their stuff, I just got more hostile to them for doing so over the years.
Again, like, even though I agree with the left 85% of the time on social issues, I do admit that their current approach and zeitgeist is a failure. People dont like being lectured, they dont like being policed, they don't like people forcing agendas on them. it's an understandable reaction. If lefties wanna make video games and make them left wing coded, there are better ways to do that. Like bioshock. Or wolfenstein. Or open world games like fallout new vegas, or fallout 4. Or skyrim (if anything skyrim was ahead of the curve, it was basically our modern political environment 5 years before it started going that way...imperials are democrats, and the stormcloaks are republicans). You know? I ain't saying that we can't have politics in video games. You just gotta do the proper world building to make it organic and to make it make sense. And SJWs are terrible at it because they are culture warriors who just wanna preach at people. Their games are like the left wing version of chick tracts, to put it into context. You know how christians are themselves terrible at evangelizing outside of their religion? Yeah. That's what the social justice people are like. Except christians have the "privilege" of having over half the country inherently agree with them, while SJWs are like 10-15% of the population or something trying to strong arm the rest of society into accepting their values. And it just ends badly for them.
And yeah I think I'll leave it there.
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