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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There were more articles covering game character sexuality than the mass lay offs of the last two years that left entire families without sustenance.

No, there absolutely weren't.

Schreier's politics come out in his writing as well as social media. The drum he's been beating for a long time has been about labor and unionizing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I'd even consider the possibility he's right, but not for reasons that support his argument.

Games and media present transgender and minority groups in an unobtrusive way, and bigots create 17 articles complaining about their basic inclusion for the sake of "DEI".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Both GPT4 and Gemini estimate a 3:2 ratio between articles addressing video game character sexuality and those addressing lay offs and unionization in the games industry.

I won't continue this discussion because "Schreier's politics come out in his writing as well as social media. The drum he's been beating for a long time has been about labor and unionizing." is basically what I wrote on Schreier using more words, which indicates you're more interested in being a confrontational than engaging in an honest discussion on the topic. Enjoy the Cheeto for 4y.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If you want to talk about an honest discussion, consider the sample set you plugged into your search. You didn't go through two years of articles on VGC or GameSpot. You plugged indiscriminate search criteria into an AI. We just had a discussion a few days ago about how mainstream media is not covering major gaming news, but if you're reading gaming news outlets, it's been layoffs for the past two years dominating the news. Gaming news outlets would have very little reason to ever use the word "hunger", for instance, and "transgender" would apply to far more articles than those about fictional characters.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ai, google trends in english, what else does one need? Even after I gave precise google trends inputs so that the observations are reproducible? Your reply proves my point yet again. Peace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Your precise Google Trends inputs are precisely what I took issue with, because they're a bad sample set for reasons that I pointed out.