There's two sides to the SJW hate, corporations are definitely using politically correct, inclusive people and surface decisions to cater to that vocal demographic, while at the same time language policing its customers by calling them whatever buzzword they can come up with when they shit on their products.
Why do gamers tend to be reactionary...
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Ian Walker
Ideologically sure, but by capitalist I was referring to members of the bourgieous, not those who ideologically support capitalism.
Sebastian Jackson
basically all of Hollywood is bourgeois radlib
Owen Clark
Not necessarily. When you play sports you're limited by the community your in. And depending where you are might mean playing with the same race, and this in turn would create clicks.
When I was growing up there where these white guys who always play basket ball in a park nearby. There was this Mexican family that moved in and there kid would try and play with them, but they either lied and said the teams were already balanced or when they did allow him to play would never pass the ball to him.
I didn't hang out with those guys much longer after that.
It honestly is mainly based on the community imo. Typically gamers are like that in competitive games where trash talking is the norm
Evan Evans
The data in this article might be total bullshit but I thought it was interesting. Basically reactionary / conservative gamers are just one cohort of gamers, and they tend to play more violent first-person shooter games.
What's also hilarious to me is that hockey is the #1 game for moderates, because I have a centrist friend who loves those NHL games lol and Fallout (open world). The vast majority of gamers also only play one or a few games, and that's "their game." Like, my brother's girlfriend only plays those Batman games like Arkham Asylum because she really likes Batman. A lot of this is probably due to race as well with very liberal and left-wing / left-leaning black sports fans.
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Josiah Wright
And capitalism created art, cinema, books, research, etc.
Capitalism is just one tool to repay the creators of a medium. As you know they are a lot of art created for free out of people's pure passion for the art. This goes for books, movies, research, and yes, even games have been made for free or even open source.
You shouldn't diss something just because the tool it was created by.
Luis Barnes
The same reason so many of them shoot up schools, it's an outlet for their destructive rage and nihilism
Noah Martin
Yeah let's just ignore that gaming was fine for decades under capitalism and it's just a coincidence that it's going to shit as soon as social justice reared its ugly head.
Isaac Parker
what game is in between kerbal and rocket league?
Adam Morgan
The internet mixed with gaming culture is completely different from people from the 80-90s having a hobby related to gaming, or mostly being children. Culture wars wasn't a thing either.
I do disagree with the idea that gamers are the most reactionary demographic in modern entertainment, though, sport fans kill people more than vidya players shoot up public places.