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Skill issue (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

"I can't even beat a girl!?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we see the study ?? Let's see how credible it is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not the actual paper but here ya go

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33613781

[+] [email protected] -32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Politicizing games is so incredibly tiresome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Trying to avoid politics are we? Got some bad news for ya…

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this literally has nothing to do with the game itself. it's about behavior towards other people, which is intently political.

also video games are art which makes them political as well.

the fact that you kneejerked into this reaction feels super insecure and reactionary.

[+] [email protected] -26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

More like I'm just sick of people hijacking my favorite art form to express political/social issues or sexual fetishes, both of which are becoming too common. It's exactly why I've grown more and more in favor of retro gaming, back when neither of those expressions were anything but a fringe group of miserable individuals and weirdos that most gamers ignored. Not going to argue further, I've spoken my piece.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm glad, because you're talking nonsense.

what you're referring to is a time when you were a kid and didn't realize the politics. now you're aware of it and are acting like it's new. this is just illiteracy.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge."

Alternatively, "That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal."

Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it's been able to be expressed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tetris is about trying to fit into a society, that wants to destroy you.

Space invader is about uniting all of earth's peoples against a common challenge.

Pong is about the heated but honest exchange of ideas that makes a democracy stronger.

(/jk I agree with you)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've heard this before but "a man who hates an animal" makes me laugh so hard

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Only two genders: male and political.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago

I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can't imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't think that's right, I'm terrible at games but I still respect women (enough to spare them from interacting with me whenever possible. Same goes for all people really)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they then went on to become the founders of incel culture

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I wonder what kind of person judges people (Men to be precise) as sub-humans because they didn't have sex with a woman ?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Incel culture has always existed it just didn't have a way out if its mom's basement without the internet.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Playing online since dialup/Internet cafe days, can confirm. Also it’s just more fun to get along.

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