Concord has been user tagged as "politics" on steam for having non-white LGBTQ+ characters : games

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago

Gamers aren't being persecuted... but they should be.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago

The next five year plan - Building a really big school locker sufficient to house the entire gamer population.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 months ago

I heard about the guy who have the biggest locker on planet, he's called Davy Jones.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago

Honestly Valve should do a purge on this shit. People who brigade tag things like this get banned from using Steam community features.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago

Tagging cop games villain protagonist is funny though

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[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Those libertarians could never lift a finger for anything like this.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago

Ah yes the two races, white and POLITICAL.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Just like the two genders, male and political.

Or the two sexual orientations, straight and political.

When you're used to privellage equality feels like persecution.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 3 months ago

I see the "politics" and "political simulator"(!!!) on its steam page, that's just run of the mill multi fps shooter. Do they even moderate the tags there?

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago

Considering they let open Nazis run rampant on their forums...

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got quite a lot of open fash comments removed from steam forums so they do moderate them somewhat at least, but idk if any authors of them got banned.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

You gotta report them and it takes a bit of time but there is some moderation that happens on steam. At least enough to piss off some fashy gamers

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago

This is probably going to piss off people who actually want to play political sim and games about politics.

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

There's an argument to be made that GG was responsible for neo-fascism blooming in the west. In the very least it was a big push to getting Trump elected and establishing the alt-right.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

I will make that argument. I was there, Gandalf, 3,000 years ago, when the strength of gamers fail. Looking back, we were 150% watching white male gamers being radicalized in to neo-fascism, but I at least didn't recognize the scope or importance of what was happening.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

It's not a very unpopular argument, Steve Bannon even had his part in G*merGate.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

It tru. Which, like... fukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[-] jaywalker@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Even if GG isn't responsible, Bannon and others like him were absolutely trying to spread fascism through gamer outrage well before GG really started

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[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It says something about the state of America that you can't get people to care about politics by talking about health care, mass incarceration, housing prices, etc. But tell them woke is why vidja games are bad and they're ready to go for fascism.

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[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One thing that struck me about the Jan 6 riot is that, especially compared to the 2017 unite the right rally, everyone was fucking old. My read on that is that Facebook and it’s corresponding propaganda style has been much more fertile ground for activating reactionaries IRL than 4chan and Reddit has. There’s definitely millions and millions of gamer chuds, but they seem over represented online and underrepresented in voting booths, protests and riots

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[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

I was thinking about how while it’s nothing new that reactionary groups attempt to co-opt youth subcultures, this one is maybe their most successful attempt of all time in terms of both per capita conversion and raw numbers.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

This game has looked like a complete dud that no one asked for to me from everything I've seen, but of course the vast majority of gamer complaints have seemed to be just frothing about WOKE DEI ESG frothingfash

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

I recently realized that the vast majority of content that this crowd whines about isn’t very good on its own merits. For example, The Acolyte, which was middling at best from what I watched, got it hard from the Star Wars reactionary fans while Andor, which has an only slightly less diverse cast, did not. This indicates to me that while these people are sincere racists and probably really do believe that diverse casting signals a conspiracy against the white race, they also lack conviction and will fall silent if the treats are tasty enough.

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Even if it was the greatest game in existence...there are like five of these on Steam that are free to play.

They're asking for the equivalent of $40 for this? lol, nope.

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

I really wish the vast majority of "hero shooters" were just co-op games. Sweaty PvP is so done for me. That's part of the reason I like Warframe and Wayfinder and other "hero" style games. I like saving the day with the homies. These Concord characters all look fine to me, I think they'd make for fun co-op heroes

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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Political SIM FPS???

Only one of those I can think of is JFK reloaded

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[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

CW: racism

(desert-skinned beige people with 80% brown hair is much better)

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 3 months ago

These are the subset of gamers that piss me off to no end... The early access game review bombing for poor optimization numbnuts are their own kind of special, but these folks just thrive on hatred...

Every fucking steam discussion has a "WoKe GaMe?" Post...

Reich wing propaganda working it's way through society... We can thank Steve Bannon partially for wanting to aim for indoctrinating "rootless white male gamers"

[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

The early access game review bombing for poor optimization

imo don't do early access if you don't want real criticism, it was supposed to be the whole reason you release in EA in the first place not just as a marketing hype generator

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[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

So weird they picked this to hate on, cause it seems like a bit of an Overwatch clone, which also shares a lot in common with League of Legends.

I know Overwatch has a few, but I played a lot of League and there are plenty of non-vanilla characters.

These people just hate for hate’s sake.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

They latched on to it because it's total dogshit.

It's a Sony title that didn't crack 700 concurrent players on its first day.

Now there's two possible reasons for this, one is that it's a shitty looking generic paid pvp hero game. There's literally half a dozen better free options with already existing communities and player bases.

The other possibility is that it's because there's characters in it that aren't straight white males.

It would be like saying that the reason Steven Segal movies aren't popular is because it stars a straight white guy and not because it's a dogshit product by a dogshit person that looks worse than half a dozen free readily available options.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

It's because it's shit and an easy target as a result.

Anything that's bad is because of le woke. They ignore it in anything good.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

I sincerely wish the sight of these groups causes intense psychic backlash and physical pain. This will be extra funny considering the vast majority of the world is non white. Maybe this explains why they're adamant to vote fuckers that wanna accelerate climate catastrophe especially since it will hit the global south the hardest first.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Gamers should be shot

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Much like whiteness being the absence of race, reactionaries want you to see them as the absence of politics.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Hmm, I can add political to every game >.>

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Every character in Concord looks like a background extra in a cheap sci-fi movie. They're very colorful but somehow completely generic and bland. And the game was advertised with unearned enthusiasm. "Hey, you get the opportunity to play this fun adventure game that is fun and enjoyable and adventurous. You'll get to play as the funny, spunky, in-your-face, funny, space character. Do you like that you consumer? We made this for you. This is stuff you like."