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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Awoo@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Posted on the discord here.

The only logical answer I have for why people would yellow-face themselves while rage-hacking in a new game is because there is a group intentionally agitating this issue for political purposes.

It's not like they're trying to pretend to be good. They are blatant rage hacking with the intention of letting everyone know that they're doing it. There is no logical answer for this other than agitators.

This is the easiest thing in the world to do. You ragehack in a game using a Chinese name while constantly posting in communities about how the game is filled with Chinese hackers and how they need to be region locked. Then you also post all your race-theory bullshit for how they're predisposed culturally-or-otherwise to "cheating".

And because it damages the TREATS gamers react viscerally to it. They're incredibly easy to manipulate.

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's one of the most insane examples of racism being so deeply embedded in a hobby I'm aware of. The sixth most upvoted post on /r/pcgaming is from a supposedly Chinese gamer claiming that all Chinese gamers are predisposed to hack because cheating is a part of culture there and hack developers are chasing a drug-like high

And maybe this is a hot take, but I think a lot of the people who parrot the point don't realize how fucking racist it is. It reminds me of how a younger RION heard that foreign nationals buying up property was the big cause of housing shortages in the USA and Canada, and I just went ahead and repeated that because it sounded plausible without interrogating how racist and nonsensical that claim actually is

Since it's apparently unclear the "hotness" of the take isn't that the rhetoric is racist (although it very much is) but that so many of the people who repeat it are somewhat ignorant to that racism.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

It's a fucked up issue that repeats itself over and over and over again and gets worse with every iteration until it's properly opposed and challenged.

[-] yoink@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

It reminds me of how a younger RION heard that foreign nationals buying up property was the big cause of housing shortages in the USA and Canada, and I just went ahead and repeated that because it sounded plausible without interrogating how racist and nonsensical that claim actually is

this is also current discourse in Australia, and it still is just as racist and nonsensical

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

It's the current discourse in most Angloid countries.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

It's probably a Chinese-American

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Or a KKKracker in digital yellow face

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Mods think this is a hot take.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

I know this has been said countless times already, but g*mers are easily the most clueless incredulous rubes in the world. That and being incredibly Sinophobic and bigoted in general.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

I honestly respect russian and chinese cheaters for not respecting gamers in the imperial core

[-] LiberalScratcher@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Every time I’m playing an online video game and I hear the word “Chinese” there is basically a 100% chance it will be followed up with “hacker.”

Which is interesting because I swear it’s just projection from racist assholes. I don’t run into cheaters very often, or at least I don’t think I do, but the last two people I am certain were cheating were white supremacists. I fought a Ken player in SF6 that in a team called “Whites only” and the other guy was in Tarkov who was walling and just shouting the worst shit imaginable at anyone who came within earshot.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Someone sent me this right wing thinktank shit as "evidence" of the Chinese being cheaters earlier today and said it's "objectively true" lmao.

https://archive.is/kDZyd

  1. Literally nothing to do with videogames.

  2. Absolutely no comparison to whatever the cheating average is.

  3. Site is literally filled with how the "woke" is bad for education.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Westerners are some of the most mentally poisoned people I've ever met.

But this isn't too different from how the Japanese used to be viewed during their rise. At first they were sneaky "yellow" removed who you couldn't trust because they were sneaky. It was assumed that the Japanese just copied everything and couldn't make anything original. Nowadays Japanese gamers are assumed to be that good based on skill alone.

China is going through a similar period and it might change as Chinese soft power grows. Younger generations growing up with Genshin Impact and TikTok could at the very least have a more neutral view of the country despite the propaganda.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Who the fuck are these "Chinese" gamers playing on servers across the Pacific anyway? Do Gamers not know how insanely laggy an FPS at 500+ ms would be?

Gamers are the most credulous racists alive.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

I hate G*mers freeze-gamer

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Anecdotally, I know other places have cheaters and I don't do that much multiplayer, but I have only ever been on the other end of really disruptive hacking at the hands of other anglophones. In other languages, even the couple of Hebrew usernames included, they were just normal players or had more benign problems like going afk.

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