I've been seeing a worrying number of these people on Lemmy lately, sharing enlightened takes including but not limited to "voting for Biden is tantamount to fascism" and "the concept of an assigned gender, or even an assigned name, at birth is transphobic" and none of them seem to be interested in reading more than the first sentence of any of my comments before writing a reply.
More often than not they reply with a concern I addressed in the comment they're replying to, without any explanation of why my argument was invalid. Some of them cannot even state their own position, instead simply repeatedly calling mine oppressive in some way.
It occurred to me just now that these interactions reminded me of nothing so much as an evangelical Christian I got into an argument with on Matrix a while ago, in which I met him 95% of the way, conceded that God might well be real and that being trans was sinful and tried to convince him not to tell that to every trans person he passed, and failed. I am 100% convinced he was trolling -- in retrospect I'm pretty sure I could've built a municipal transport system by letting people ride on top of his goalposts (that's what I get for picking a fight with a Christian at 2AM) -- and the only reason I'm not convinced these leftists on Lemmy are trolls is the sheer fucking number of them.
I made this post and what felt like half the responses fell into this category. Am I going insane?
If this is true, it should be constantly called out. You're shrugging at slavery?
Edit: I don't play or care about this game. Obviously I don't give two shits if creatures are slaves in video games as long as there's nothing about it that makes it seem like a good idea for sentient creatures
Fiction is fiction. This is the same kind of logic that adults used when I was a kid because Harry Potter promoted witchcraft, or when the country had a moral panic because Call of Duty had their children killing people. Nothing in the game literally advocates for or glorifies IRL slavery, that would be absurd.
If you can't parse fiction from reality, then you aren't fit for just about anything. Movies, music, video games, books, etc. Every medium frequently depicts things you shouldn't emulate. Even the literal Bible has depictions of slavery, rape, incest, and murder.
I guess i fucked up assuming that if someone protested slavery, it was real, not imaginary ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Hahaha, no worries, sorry for coming at ya so hard!
No they are protesting the slavery of pokemons by another name
If you consider the game slavery to make monsters work for you, then I guess. Problem is that covers a huge amount of games beyond palworld.
Yo dipshit I don't play this game and assumed if someone called out forced labor then it was actually a real thing
Yeah well who's the dipshit now? ๐
Yeah probably the person who thought words gave meaning
Wait until you hear about cookie clicker.
I don't give a fuck if a game has actual "human" slaves, it's not real and anyone who can't figure that out has a lot more issues
I believe they are doing the PETA and Pokemon bit, where the Pals are enslaved, though this is a bit of a weird anecdote and not representative of the broader, grass touching left.