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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gamers are the fucking reason the GOP isn’t an irrelevant laughingstock and this is how they repay them?

Progressivism never took root in chanlords because gamers didn’t see themselves as oppressed nerds but as temporarily embarrassed jocks.

[-] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

Night of the Long Knives etc.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

Ah, the original fell for it again award

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Jack Thompson impulse always re-emerges, bannon trying to make a freeze-gamer coalition or no

ed: I assumed "gamers" would be the Mr. Freeze "gamers" emoji, and it wasn't

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

post-US crash gaming should've stayed niche. Madden, FIFA, and CoD have a-guy you know the thing.

[-] wolfinthewoods@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

That's why it's fun to go back and look at pdfs of old gaming magazines from the 80s and early to mid 90s, it really was quite a niche subculture. You'd have these small 5-10 developer teams making just the oddest, but fantastic games that you only ever see in indie games rarely nowadays (itch.io is a fun place to go for those kinds of weird, off the wall games these days). Once the Playstation/N64 era took off gaming just getting progressively bigger and aiming for the lowest-common denominator of players. I still game but rarely ever big AAA games, mostly its retro games/hacks on emulators and indie games.

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